왕칭쑹

His art works have been collected by more than sixty public art museums including the Museum of Modern Art (USA), Getty Museum (USA), San Francisco Museum of Art (USA), Queensland Art Gallery (Australia), Art Tower Mito (Japan), National Museum of Art (Brazil), Museum of European Photography (France), MUMOK (Austria), National Gallery of Australia, Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), Daegu Art Museum (Korea), the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum (China), Guangdong Art Museum, Hubei Art Museum, and etc. Constructed with expensive scenographic techniques requiring large studios, complex architectural structures, park lamps and numerous extras, the disillusioned expressions in Wang Qingsong’s photos relate the broken dreams and promises of a society that changes too quickly to develop models of life that respect the needs of everyone. In them we recognize not only the China of today, but also traces of a global society that could be ours.