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FitzGerald Fine Arts Opens 'Urban Amber' Exhibition With Chinese Artist Han Bing

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NEW YORK - Sept. 6, 2016 - Rezul -- Contemporary artist Han Bing, now represented by FitzGerald Fine Arts, possesses an impressive exhibition and publication record worldwide.

His solo show entitled Urban Amber is a series of roughly twenty photographs (c-prints on aluminum) and four transparency light box units, all of which were taken over the course of six years and will be on exhibit at FitzGerald Fine Arts gallery at Wooster Street in Manhattan with a dedicated evening reception on September 23rd.

Han Bing's photography series: Urban Amber looks to visualize the drama of China's transformations as the nation is caught up in what he calls the "theatre of modernization."

The fact that these photos are single exposures is surprising at first glance, because of their digitized look, which today tends to indicate the use of digital editing. Bing's shots are taken from reflections in toxic waters and cesspools, but offer a subtle beauty and serenity in their juxtapositions of material and metaphysical forms. Intentional distortions of direction and form are commentary on photography's own identity in the digital era. Urban Amber highlights the detritus of a society fixated on industrialization, not stopping to look at its own morphing reflection.

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"We have been informed that we are on the road to happiness, striding from the deceptive fantasies of the past into a feverish frenzy of economic modernization. The effects of so-called globalization and modernization rain down on us like blows to the face as we hurtle from one world toward another, rushing towards the mirage of a make-believe China, bloated with decadence and grotesque with vulgar self-indulgence. The view of history and the yearning for a new life are concentrated in China's pursuit of so-called modernity," states Han Bing.

In addition to his ongoing photography projects, Han Bing has found great success with multimedia projects, performance art, film & documentary, site-specific installations, painting and social art projects. He grew up in an impoverished village in rural China, but currently lives and works in Beijing. The artist has had influential solo shows at the Pompidou Arts Centre, Columbia Museum of Art, IEAS Center, National Art Museum of China, Guangzhou Art Museum and Beursschouwburg Art Center.

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About the Gallery With two locations in New York City at 40 Wooster Street and 41 Greene Street, FitzGerald Fine Arts' focus is to bring the most innovative Contemporary Asian Art to the international market. The gallery's leading presence at recent art fairs including SCOPE Miami, Art Southampton, Asian Art in London, Asia Week New York and Zona Maco, positions FitzGerald Fine Arts at the epicenter of the global market. Since its inception in 2007, the gallery has sought out Asian art that examines traditional mediums of the past, but reimages these mediums, techniques and motifs with contemporary aesthetics and contextual underpinnings. Many of the artists' work appears in the permanent collections of prominent museums including the Brooklyn Museum, Seattle Art Museum, China Institute, Shanghai Xuhui Art Museum and Yale University Art Museum, and all have been exhibited in solo and group shows around the world. For upcoming exhibits, events and general inquiries, please visit www.fitzgeraldfinearts.com.

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