桑塔展览 | 王兵（Wang Bing）最新个展即将于2018年12月1日开幕
王兵 | Wang Bing
美是自由的象征 | Beauty lives in Freedom
2018
彩色，16:9，数字4K, 立体声 | Colour, 16:9, Digital 4K, Stereo
Edition 1/6 + 2 AP
致谢艺术家及桑塔画廊 | Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
© Wang Bing
在王兵的第二次展览中，我们将展出他的三部影片，其中包括两部在法国从未曝光过的作品：《方绣英》（2018 - 导演剪辑版）和《美是自由的象征》（2018），两部作品将在展览期间，于每周二至周六上午11点和下午2点播放。 作品《遗址》（2014）将在展览空间中进行连续播放。
王兵 | Wang Bing
方绣英 | Mrs Fang
2018
16:9，彩色，立体声 | 16:9 film, colour, sound
1h42min
Edition 2/6 + 2 AP
致谢艺术家及桑塔画廊 | Courtesy de l'artiste et | of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
© Wang Bing
《方绣英》（2018 - 导演剪辑版）
方绣英是一名1948年出生于福建湖州的农场工人。在她生命的最后八年里，她患上老年痴呆症。 到2015年，她的症状恶化十分严重。 在疗养院接受了几个月的无效治疗后，她回到家中后去世。
王兵 | Wang Bing
美是自由的象征 | Beauty lives in Freedom
2018
彩色，16:9，数字4K, 立体声 | Colour, 16:9, Digital 4K, Stereo
Edition 1/6 + 2 AP
致谢艺术家及桑塔画廊 | Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
© Wang Bing
《美是自由的象征》
83岁的高尔泰和他的妻子浦小雨一起住在拉斯维加斯。 根据他在极权主义制度下度过了50多年的个人经验，高尔泰对关于美学和异化提供了一个深刻的分析，分析了一个人如何被强制疏远并变成一个政治体制的傻瓜。 在一个普通人自由冲动的驱使下，被压迫的身体本身将作为一种疏离的工具来证明美是自由的象征。
王兵 | Wang Bing
遗址 | Traces
2014
单频录像，35毫米胶片转数码，黑白，有声 | Single-channel video, 35mm film transferred to digital, black and white, sound
28min
Edition 3/6 + 2 AP
致谢艺术家及桑塔画廊 | Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
© Wang Bing
《遗址》
在准备他的电影《夹边沟》的同时，王兵前往戈壁沙漠， 拍摄了沙漠和被遗弃的残骸的场景。
关于王兵：
1967年生于中国陕西省西安市，在中国和法国生活和工作。
1992年，王兵毕业于鲁迅美术学院摄影系。 为了他的摄影工作，他详细观察了铁西工厂的工人的工作时长。 1995年，他进入北京电影学院的电影系学习，在1998年成为独立电影导演之前，他在电视台工作了一段时间。《铁西区》是王兵的第一部纪录片，于2002年拍摄，为此他获得了无数奖项。
2009年，桑塔画廊在巴黎举办了他的首次个展，展出了两部纪录片：《和凤鸣》和《无名者》。 从那以后，王兵制作了许多纪录片，如《三姐妹》（2012），《德昂》（2016），《煤钱》（2016），以及《方绣英》（2017）和《15小时》（2017），两部作品都在2017年位于雅典和卡塞尔两处的卡塞尔文献展中展出。
2017年，他的作品《方绣英》被授予瑞士洛迦诺电影节金豹奖，这是洛迦诺国际艺术节的最高奖项。 同年，他还获得了阿姆斯特丹（荷兰）的EYE艺术与电影奖，以表彰他的整个创作历程。 王兵的作品进行过众多的回顾放映，其中包括2014年的蓬皮杜艺术中心，2018年马德里的雷纳索非亚博物馆和西班牙电影图书馆等。王兵将于2018-2019冬季在苏黎世艺术馆举办个展。
王兵目前正在法国Fresnoy-contemporary arts national studio任职2018-2019年度的客座教授。
On the occasion of Wang Bing’s second exhibition, Galerie Chantal Crousel will present three films including two previously unseen in France: Mrs Fang (2018 – Director’s cut) and Beauty Lives in Freedom (2018) respectively shown at 11am and 2pm from Tuesday to Saturday. Traces (2014) will be presented in the exhibition space in a continuous screening.
Mrs Fang (Director’s cut)
Fang Xiuying was a farm worker born in Huzhou, Fujian in 1948. For the last eight years of her life she suffered from Alzheimer’s. By 2015 the symptoms were quite advanced. She received an ineffective treatment in a convalescent home and few months later she returned home to die.
Beauty Lives in Freedom
Gao Ertai, 83, lives with his wife Pu Xiaoyu in Las Vegas. Based on his personal experience of over 50 years under a totalitarian system, Gao Ertai’s works on aesthetics and alienation provide a piercing analysis of how an individual is coercively alienated and turned into a tool of a political regime. Driven by an ordinary man’s urge to be free, an oppressed body uses himself as an alienated tool to demonstrate that beauty is the symbol of freedom.
Traces
While preparing his film The Ditch, Wang Bing travelled to the Gobi Desert, to the exact same places where thousands of people lived and died in the “re-education- through-labour” camps set up by the communist regime in the late 1950’s. He shot scenes of desert and abandoned bones, which provide evidence of the events of those times buried until now.
About Wang Bing:
Born in 1967, in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China，Lives and works in China and France.
In 1992, Wang Bing graduated in photography from the Luxum Arts University in Shenyang. For his photography work, he watched at length workers of the Tie Xi facility. In 1995, he studied at the Beijing Film Academy, then worked for some time on television before starting a career as an independent film director in 1998. West of the Tracks is Wang Bing's first documentary, filmed in 2002, for which he received numerous awards and grants.
In 2009, Galerie Chantal Crousel presented his first solo exhibition in Paris, with the projection of the two documentary films: Fengming and Man with No Name. Since then, Wang Bing has produced many documentaries such as Three Sisters (2012), TA'ANG (2016), Coal Money (2016), as well as Mrs Fang(2017) and 15 Hours (2017), both exhibited during Documenta14 in Athens and Kassel in 2017.
In 2017, he was awarded the Golden Leopard, highest award of the Concorso Internazionale of the Locarno Festival for the film Mrs Fang. That same year, he was also the recipient of the EYE Art & Film Prize in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), honouring his entire filmography. His work has been subject to numerous retrospectives, notably at the Centre Pompidou in 2014, and at the Museo Reina Sofía and Filmoteca Española, Madrid, in 2018. Wang Bing will have a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich in winter 2018-2019.
Wang Bing is currently visiting artist-professor at Fresnoy - contemporary arts national studio (France), for the university year 2018-2019.
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