主办：今日美术馆

策展：凯伦•史密斯

展期：4月24日－5月8日

地点：今日美术馆 1号馆3层

在法国、美国、中国大陆及香港多次举办个展的青年摄影师陈曼将于2011年4月23日到5月8日在北京今日美术馆推出全新个人摄影装置展。本次展览由《金木水火土》及《四大天王》两个系列组成。

陈曼新作运用其独特的当代艺术语言阐释艺术家对中国传统哲学的理解，构成世界五大元素的《金木水火土》表达出艺术家对于人类与自然、社会关系的反思而《四大天王》更是通过颠覆创新的艺术语言展现出一组独特的女性天王的形象，将中国传统与现代文化融汇贯通。

80后出生于北京的陈曼毕业于中央美术学院，长期与《VOUGE》、《ELLE》等国际品牌合作， 其作品航天员、滑板妞系列和funky greatwall 系列分别被《纽约时报》和德国《镜报》刊登并述之为中国视觉改革的代表。

Elan—Photography Exhibition by Chen Man

Organizer: Today Art Museum

Curator: Karen Smith

Duration: April 24-May 8

Venue: 3rd floor exhibition hall of building 1

China's Young women photographer Chen Man, who held exhibitionsin different countries and regions such as France, the US and Hong Kong, will hold her brand new solo exhibition at Today Art Museum in Beijing from April 23 to May 8, 2011. The art exhibtion consists of two sections: The Five Elements and The Four Great Heavenly Kings.

Through the new exhibition, Chen Man depicts her understanding of Chinese traditional philosophy by means of modern art language with The Five Elements expressing her consideration of the relationship between human race, society and the nature. While The Four Great Heavenly Kings hybridizes Chinese traditions with modern cultures via the creative gender change of the Great Heavenly Kings.

Chen Man, born in the 1980s, graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts and has long-term cooperation with international fashion tycoons such as VOUGE and ELLE. Her art work Astronaut, Skateboard Girls and Funky Greatwall series were published by Newyork Times of the US and Der Spiegel of Germany, being praised as the representative of China's visual revolution.