Ren Hang - Ren Hang (MINT CONDITION) - 2017

GREAT OPPORTUNITY to purchase this FANTASTIC PUBLICATION by Ren Hang (1987-2017) from 2015 (!), his first official US monograph - in BRANDNEW CONDITION.

STRONGLY LIMITED to 500 (!) copies only.

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"The volume presents Hang’s most recent photographs, taken in February 2015 during his first visit to New York. The work includes candid shots of friends in parks, cafés, streets, and apartments in Brooklyn and Manhattan, skillfully interwoven with the evocative nude photographs for which he is becoming increasingly renowned."
(from the publisher)

'I don’t really view my work as taboo, because I don’t think so much in cultural context or political context. I don’t intentionally push boundaries. I just do what I do.'
(Ren Hang in The New York Times)

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"All the images in New Love are taken in New York City by Ren Hang in February 2015. First official US monograph by Ren Hang, one of China`s most distinguished emerging photographers. "New Love" presents Hang`s most recent photographs, taken in February of this year during his first visit to New York City. It is published on the occasion of Hang`s upcoming exhibition "New Love" to be held June 19 through July 25 at matchbaco gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Hang`s work in "New Love" includes casual snap shots taken of friends in parks, cafés, streets, and apartments in Brooklyn and Manhattan, smartly blended with the striking nude photos he is becoming increasingly renowned for. Hang is highly censored by the authorities in China, and the opportunity to work in New York City brought a more relaxed and playful energy to his photographs, and gave his abundant creativity new avenues of expression. As a result, both the diaristic pictures and the stylized nudes in "New Love" are imbued with an undeniable sense of discovery and joy, and thrillingly document one of contemporary photography`s most exciting young artists taking bold advantage of the new and unfamiliar. Based in Beijing, China, Ren Hang, born 1987, is highly recognized for both his fine art and commercial photography. Exhibited around the world, his photographs are in numerous private and public collections, including those of the Kansas State University Art Museum in the United States and the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow, Russia, as well as the Cafa Art Museum and ThreeShadows Photography Art Centre, both in Beijing. "New Love" is Hang`s twelfth book of photographs and his own Poem Collection of Ren Hang." (from the publisher)

Session Press. Matchbaco gallery, Tokyo. 2015. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with photographic inlay to front cover (as issued). 215 x 305 mm. 56 pages. Photography by Ren Hang. Image Editing by Ren Hang, Huang Jiaqi. Design by Alex Lin, Studio Lin. Printing by Thomas Bossuyt, die Keure, Belgium. Text in English.

Great book with color photographs by Ren Hang, taken in New York in February 2015 - in perfect condition.
Published on the occasion of his exhibition of the same name held in Tokyo at Matchbaco Gallery from June 19 to July 25, 2015.

The only international collection of Beijing photographer Ren Hang, whose images garnered some 90 shows in his brief six-year career, as well as a mass following online. Vivid and explicit, Hang’s images capture naked subjects outdoors, exposed, erect, and in an entanglement of bodies that put him at the forefront of a gender fluid world and of Chinese artists’ battle for creative freedom.
Ren Hang, who took his life February 23, 2017, was an unlikely rebel. Slight of build, shy by nature, prone to fits of depression, the 29-year-old Beijing photographer was nonetheless at the forefront Chinese artists’ battle for creative freedom. Like his champion Ai Weiwei, Ren was controversial in his homeland and wildly popular in the rest of the world.