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Kou Yanming (b. 1961)

Distant Memory

2009

Woodblock print

79 x 61 cm

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Kou Yanming is one of the third generation of Beidahuang printmakers based in HeilonHeilongjiang. ed to Guangzhou, however, working now in that metropolis of fifteen million people. Rather than the glorious, colourful scenery of the Great Northern Wilderness, here Kou presents an intense vision of city housing blocks. The print was surely modelled on Michael Wolf’s photographic series, Density of Architecture, which explores the public-private aspects of Hong Kong’s high-rise structures, with visible details like laundry and plants.

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Muban Educational Trust registration number kouym001