Solo Exhibit: Form of Light
Venue: m97 Gallery, Shanghai
Address： Moganshan Road No.97, Shanghai
Date： 2014.9.5 — 2014.10.31
M97 Gallery is pleased to present “Form of Light”, an exhibition of new large-format, three-dimensional installation photographs by
artist Wang Ningde.
Since graduating from the Luxun Fine Arts
Academy, Wang Ningde’s artistic practice has consistently set out to explore
the core fundamental elements of photography: light, paper, materials, image
and the nature of “writing with light”. In his Form of Light series, Wang Ningde goes a
step further to deconstruct the original image form and representation to later
reconstruct it for the viewer as an abstract and inverted photographic mirage.
“These works are works about photography, not photographic works with
the purpose to express something.”
“The following words provide clues to interpreting these works: reality
and illusion; light and shadow; horizontal and vertical; fragmented and whole;
solid and empty; with and without”…
Wang Ningde started working on the Form of
Light series 2 years ago, following his own intellectual curiosity about
language and about photography as a means of expression. With the purpose of
distilling the essence of the image, Wang Ningde employs photographs of simple
images (trees, clouds, a dog) to then subject their paper representation to a
meticulous process of measuring, cutting and installing in order to filter and
project said image through light and shadow.