{"id":4605,"title":"Rong Rong's East Village","dimensions":"","date_begin":"1993-01-01","material":"portfolio of 40 photos and 1 book","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":23,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":5,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026#39;Rong Rong\u0026#39;s East Village\u0026#39; portfolio includes forty black-and-white photographs on paper (inkjet prints) and a book in a black linen-covered box. The black-and-white photographs document activities of young, avant-garde artists of the \u0026#39;Beijing East Village\u0026#39; in the period 1993-98. Apart from photographs of performances such as \u0026#39;Twelve Square Meters\u0026#39; by Zhang Huan, \u0026#39;Fen-Ma + Liuming\u0026#39;s Lunch\u0026#39; by Ma Liuming and \u0026#39;30 April 1994\u0026#39; by Zhu Ming (all 1994), the portfolio includes self-portraits taken by Rong Rong in Beijing\u0026#39;s East Village. The accompanying book includes texts from the diary Rong Rong kept during his stay in the East Village, supplemented by a text contribution by Wu Hung.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nThe portfolio appeared in an edition of 800 copies following the artist\u0026#39;s solo exhibition at the Chambers Fine Art gallery in New York in 2003. The first 40 copies of the edition (38 copies and 2 artist\u0026#39;s proofs) are so-called deluxe editions and come in a metal box and with silver gelatin prints instead of inkjet prints. The remaining 760 copies (numbered from 41 to 800), with inkjet prints, are in a black linen-covered box. Numbered and signed on the front cover of the book.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":"1998-01-01","reference":"S0296","stream_count_app":35,"permalink":"east-village","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/014/848/medium_500/Rong_Rong__East_Village_1993-1998_foto_clinckx.jpg?1362147557","cached_actor_names":"Rong Rong","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Photography","nl":"Fotografie","fr":"Photographie"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/010/712/large/rongrong.jpg?1465913351","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1993 and 1998, Rong Rong shot photographs that one way or another had something to do with the (inhabitants of the) East Village. The East Village is a suburb of Beijing that in the first-half of the Nineties was home to young artists. Poor, for sure, but rich in energy and innovation. From these East Village photos\u0026nbsp;a selection of 40 photographs was grouped in a portfolio with the title \u003cem\u003eRong Rong\u0026rsquo;s East Village\u003c/em\u003e. This portfolio, in a handsigned edition of 780 examples, is a collector\u0026rsquo;s item in China and abroad. Rong Rong moved to the East Village shortly after his arrival in Beijing in 1992. Many beginning artists from the provinces flocked there at that time. Rong Rong seized the occasion to document the sizzling artistic activity of this community in a series of raw black \u0026amp; white photographs. His \u003cem\u003eEast Village\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;series can be divided into three groups. The first consists of photographs of activities of the East Village art community itself, from 1993 to the first-half of 1994. A second group shows performances of artists who lived in the East Village, shot from the end of 1994, the time when the community was forced to dissolve due to police intervention. The third group is made up of self-portraits taken by Rong Rong during his East Village period. \u003cem\u003eEast Village\u003c/em\u003e photos\u0026nbsp;were first shown in Rong\u0026rsquo;s exhibition \u003cem\u003eThe Witness of Contemporary Art in China\u003c/em\u003e, in the Tokyo Gallery, Japan in\u0026nbsp;1995.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eTussen 1993 en 1998 nam Rong Rong foto\u0026rsquo;s die op \u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;n of andere manier iets met de (bewoners van de) East Village te maken hadden. De East Village is een buitenwijk van Beijing (het vroegere Peking) die in de eerste helft van de jaren negentig een thuis was voor jonge, weinig kapitaalkrachtige, maar bijzonder dynamische en vooruitstrevende kunstenaars. Uit deze East Village foto\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;is een selectie van 40 foto\u0026rsquo;s verschenen in een portfolio met de titel \u003cem\u003eRong Rong\u0026rsquo;s East Village\u003c/em\u003e. Deze portfolio met een oplage van 780, handgesigneerde, exemplaren is een collector\u0026rsquo;s item in China en daarbuiten. Rong Rong verhuisde naar de East Village kort nadat hij in Beijing was aangekomen in 1992. In die tijd begonnen kunstenaars uit de vele provincies die China rijk is, daar toe te stromen. Rong Rong maakte van deze gelegenheid gebruik om de zinderende artistieke activiteiten van de kunstenaarsgemeenschap te documenteren in een serie rauwe zwartwitfoto\u0026rsquo;s. De foto\u0026rsquo;s in Rong Rong\u0026rsquo;s East Village vallen uiteen in drie groepen. Een eerste groep bestaat uit foto\u0026rsquo;s van de activiteiten van de artistieke gemeenschap in de East Village zelf, genomen in 1993 en de eerste helft van 1994. Een tweede groep toont performances van kunstenaars die in de East Village hebben gewoond, genomen vanaf het einde van 1994, op het moment dat de gemeenschap noodgedwongen uiteenvalt door de tussenkomst van de politie. De derde groep bestaat uit zelfportretten die Rong Rong maakte tijdens zijn East-Villageperiode. De \u003cem\u003eEast Village\u003c/em\u003e foto\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;werden voor het eerst getoond in Rongs fototentoonstelling \u003cem\u003eThe Witness of Contemporary Art\u003c/em\u003e in China, in de Tokyo Gallery in Japan in\u0026nbsp;1995.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":704,"name":"Rong Rong","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}