Hai Bo - Contemporary Art London Thursday, June 21, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist

  • Exhibited

    New York, Jun-Sep 2004; Chicago, Oct 2004- Jan 2005; Seattle, Feb-May 2005; London, Sep 2005-Jan 2006; Berlin, Mar-May 2006; Santa Barbara, Jun-Sep 2006; Durham, Oct 2006-Feb 2007; Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, International Center of Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Asia Society, New York (other examples exhibited)

  • Literature

    Retratos - Portraits, Macau, 2002, p. 7 (ill.); Chinese Avant-Garde Photography since 1990, Hunan, 2004, p. 23 (ill.); D. Mills, Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Lewisburg, 2004, p. 36-37 (ill.); H. Wu and C. Phillips, Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Chicago and New York, 2004, p. 56 (ill.)

  • Catalogue Essay

    The photographs in the They series result from my work over the past few years. Most of the people in them are close to me. By restaging old photographs and strictly adhering to the way they look (for example the people in them must stay in the same positions), I mean not only to show the changes that have taken place in people and society, over time; even more importantly, I mean to re-create the past, if only in that moment when the shutter snaps. I am enchanted by the fragrance of time. (B. Hai, quoted in Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, H. Wu and C. Phillips, eds., Chicago and New York, 2004, p. 205)

107

They No. 7 (Three Sisters)

1999
Two black and white photographs.
24 1/2 x 35 in. (62.2 x 88.9 cm) and 25 x 36 in. (63.5 x 91.4 cm).
Titled and dated "Three Sisters [in Chinese] 1999" and numbered of eight on the reverse and lower right. This work is from an edition of eight.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for £9,000

Contemporary Art

22 June 2007, 4pm & 5pm
London