Ren Hang 'Beauty Without Beards
On show now at newish photography gallery Modern Art Base (MAB) is a solo exhibition from Chinese photographer Ren Hang, entitled “Beauty Without Beards”. It’s the “first memorial solo exhibition since his death in February [of this year]” and exhibits 19 prints of his final works completed in Beijing and elsewhere in 2015. The show is a collaborative effort with pieces on loan from KMW Art Center in Beijing, working with the parents of the artist representing his estate. In "Beauty Without Beards", Ren Hang presents his all-male photographic subjects as youthful, playful, dazed, erotic, natural, spontaneous, frivolous, exuberant, instinctual, idealized, apolitical — in the end just bodies.
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