Erotos，荒木经惟，1993

When painting these works, I considered famous photographic pieces so it is clearly about the relationship between painting and photography. This relationship has been unshakeable since the emergence of photography and it's pestered me as individually for a long time—you could say it's my second biggest issue with photography. I've made some attempts, from the faint inkling of Chinese traditional painting in the piece Zhen, to directly applying color by hand to the surface of photographs; I later experimented with drawing on ready-made images but I've always been more partial to painting.

This year I quit all these experiments, initially thinking I would simply use ink painting to copy photography and attempt as much as possible to relax and restrain my painting technique. By placing all the focus on the photograph, I could more deeply understand every detail of a masterpiece. This type of observational methodology is completely different from conventional viewing. Returning to my entanglement with painting and photography, I definitely wanted to parse out victory and defeat between the two. Reality to photography, photography to painting, painting becoming real photography. Paintings based entirely upon photography always seems to be more like drawings. But by directly copying these famous photographic works, drawing “photography” became a real possibility—these formidable renowned works which obstruct the face of photographed phenomena, deeply imprinted in the minds of everyone with an understanding of photography and photographic history—render painting unable to penetrate photography and reach the subject directly. In this, I was finally able to clearly, undoubtedly see a photograph. Photography occupies the advantageous position, painting becomes its substitute and not its opposite. Herein, to my surprise, painting defeats painting, and you can call me a photographic double agent.

Lin Shu

艺术家简历

林舒

出生于福建，现居北京，自由摄影师，《ALTERTRUE》杂志创办人。

个展

2013:

《鸩》 法国巴黎

2011：

林舒《鸩》写真展 日本东京

2010：

第六届连州国际摄影年展 《鸩》 广东连州

群展

2016：

隐逸的灵境 TABULA RASA 北京

2015 :

FORMAT国际摄影节“来自中国的50本当代摄影画册2009－2014” 英国伦敦

谷仓当代影像馆驻地计划 兰州

2014：

浮世相-新摄影大篷车计划 北京

2013:

北京国际摄影周 北京

2012:

大理国际影会“亚洲先锋摄影师成长计划” 云南大理

2011:

一重影事 广东深圳

草场地摄影季24小时北京 北京

CHINA FOTO 日本东京

2010：

TORA TORA TORA 中国新锐影像展 北京

2009：

《临点-年轻摄影家眼中的中国》2009年度三影堂摄影奖作品展 北京

2006：

平遥摄影节 “簇”六人展 山西平遥

出版

《大象·fotoyard》 中国美术学院出版社 2006.12

《中国摄影新锐25》顾铮 浙江摄影出版社 2010.01

《鸩》个人写真集 日本东京禅画廊 2011.10

《鼩鼱》假杂志 2015.11

收藏

何香凝美术馆 2011.07

日本东京禅画廊 2011.10

Lin Shu

Lin was born in Fujian Province, and is now a freelance photographer in Beijing and the founder of ALTERTRUE magazine.

Solo Exhibitions

2013:

“Toxic,” Paris, France

2011:

“Toxic,” Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2010:

“Toxic,” Lianzhou Foto, Lianzhou, China

Group Exhibitions

2016:

“Elemental Landscape,” Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing, China

2015:

“50 Contemporary Photobooks from China 2009-2014,” FORMAT International Photography Festival, London, UK

Gucang Contemporary Image Center Residency Project, Lanzhou, China

2014:

“All Living Creatures: New Photography Sailboat Project,” Beijing, China

2013:

Photo Beijing, Beijing, China

2012:

“Asia Pioneer Photographer Foundation Exhibition,” Dali International Photography Exhibition, Dali, China

2011:

“Recurrent Shadows,” He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

“Caochangdi PhotoSpring: 24 Hour Project,” Caochangdi PhotoSpring, Beijing, China

“CHINA FOTO,” Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2010:

“TORA! TORA! TORA! Photography Exhibition,” Caochangdi, Beijing, China

2009:

“Points of Impact: China through the Eyes of Young Photographers,” Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China

2006:

“Bunch: Six-Person Exhibition,” Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China

Publications

Elephant- Fotoyard, China Academy of Art Press, December 2006

25 Cutting-Edge Chinese Photographers, ed. Gu Zheng, Zhejiang Photography Publishing Group, January 2010

Toxic, Zen Foto Gallery, October 2011

Qu Jing, Jiazazhi, November 2015

Collections

He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, July 2011

Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, October 2011