m97画廊非常荣幸地推出 由居住在香港/巴黎的德国摄影师迈克尔• 沃尔夫的个人最新作品展《生活在城市中》。

《生活在城市中》展览包括了沃尔夫最近完成的作品系列：《一系列的不幸事件-巴黎街景》, 《东京压缩》和《透明的城市》。

《一系列的不幸事件-巴黎街景》(2009-2010)，沃尔夫最新的作品系列，使用了谷歌地图的街景网络数据库作为原始材料，完成了一系列令人回味的巴黎街头摄影。沃尔夫的作品在对涉及到隐私和网上及易查询的令人难以置信的问题上继续着对城市生活中的荣辱的探索。沃尔夫的作品在不是很合作但又没有完全侵犯隐私的情况下拍摄，在美与不适、幽默与恐惧中游走。

《东京压缩》(2009)描述了地狱一般拥挤的东京地铁上，乘客们被挤压到地铁门上，在面对摄影师镜头下所表现出的各种细微而又敏感的不适反应。《东京压缩》系列赢得了2009年世界新闻摄影奖在日常生活类一等奖。

《透明的城市》，拍摄于2007年的芝加哥，是沃尔夫拍摄的第一个表现美国城市的系列。用他独特的视角来表现改变城市环境的具有特色的城市建筑。沃尔夫选择拍摄中心市区，特别注重于由于建筑问题代来的隐私问题和当代城市建筑景观的变迁。

《生活在城市中》展览还会展出迈克尔沃尔夫最受欢迎的《城市密度》和《香港后门》系列，都是对香港城市建筑的物理色彩的表现，以及视觉上和社会学上的复杂性。

迈克尔• 沃尔夫

迈克尔•沃尔夫1954年出生在德国的慕尼黑，在美国长大。就读于美国加州伯克利大学并且在德国埃森的富特旺根大学，跟随著名摄影大师Otto Steinert学习。自1994年开始在中国香港工作生活，他的足迹遍及中国。他的摄影作品表现了特殊而又复杂的中国文化，在这个新的全球经济的商业元素到和由城市密度对香港社会和经济的影响。

2004年沃尔夫凭借“城市密度”成为世界级的艺术摄影师，受到高度赞誉的“城市密度”系列是大范围表现香港住宅建筑的一系列照片。2005年，他赢得世界新闻摄影奖和美国摄影奖。他在芝加哥当代摄影博物馆，法兰克福的建筑博物馆，汉堡的劳工博物馆，德绍的包豪斯博物馆，以及亚洲，欧洲和美国其他许多画廊都做过个人作品展。

他的作品被很多享有很高声望的场馆所收藏，包括纽约大都会艺术博物馆，布鲁克林博物馆，德国建筑博物馆，密尔沃基艺术博物馆，埃森博物馆。2006年，他的大型装置作品“真实的玩具故事”在芝加哥的当代博物馆展出，之后在德国和芬兰的众多博物馆中相继展出。

迈克尔•沃尔夫出版了五本作品集：《香港里外》 (AsiaOne/Peperoni Books, 2009), 《透明的城市》 (Aperture, 2009), 《香港：前门/后门》 (Thames and Hudson, 2005), 《坐在中国》 (Steidl, 2002), 和《转变中的中国》(Frederking und Thaler, 2001)。《东京压缩》，《一系列的不幸事件 #02》将在2010年由Peperoni Books出版发行。另外，由沃尔夫自己收集的从1949年到1980年之间的大量中国宣传海报也被收集整理成一本书叫《中国宣传海报》，由Taschen在2003年出版发行。

想要了解更多迈克尔• 沃尔夫的信息及他的作品图片，请点击：http://www.m97gallery.com/artist/?artist=michael_wolf&series=1

m97 Gallery is pleased to present "LIFE IN CITIES" a solo exhibition of new works by Hong Kong/Paris-based German photographer Michael Wolf.

The “LIFE IN CITIES” exhibition comprises four main bodies of Wolf’s most recent works: “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, “Paris Street View”, “Tokyo Compression”, and “Transparent City”.

“A Series of Unfortunate Events” and “Paris Street View” (2009-2010), Wolf’s latest projects, use Google’s online Street View database as raw material, navigating Paris and other cities, capturing a series of classic yet evocative street photos. Wolf’s work further continues his exploration of the glories and humiliations of contemporary urban life, while touching on issues of privacy and the overwhelming volume of information accessible online. Not quite appropriation and not quite privacy infringement, Wolf’s photographs walk a fine line between beauty and discomfort, humor and fear.

“Tokyo Compression” (2009) captures the crude realities of the rush-hour commute on the crammed Tokyo subway system. Pressed against the subway doors, the passengers react with discomfort to the intrusive presence of the photographer. The “Tokyo Compression” series won 1st prize at the World Press Photo Awards 2009 in the Daily Life category.

“Transparent City” (2007) is Wolf’s first body of work to address an American city. Bringing his unique perspective on changing urban environments to Chicago, a city renowned for its architectural legacy, Wolf chose to photograph the central downtown area, focusing specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux.

The “LIFE IN CITIES” exhibition also showcases works from Michael Wolf’s acclaimed “Architecture Of Density” and “Hong Kong Back Door” series, in which Wolf examines the colorful physical landscape of Hong Kong, as well as its visual and sociological complexity.

MICHAEL WOLF

BIOGRAPHY

Michael Wolf was born in Munich, Germany, and grew up in the United States.  He studied both at the University of California Berkley and at the Folkwang School in Essen (Germany) with renowned photography master Otto Steinert. He has lived in Hong Kong since 1994 and has worked extensively across China. His photographs explore the complex cultural identity of China, from commercial elements of this new global economy to the social and economic implications of the urban density in the city of Hong Kong.

In 2004 Wolf gained international recognition as a world-class art photographer with “Architecture of Density,” his highly-acclaimed series of large-scale photographs of Hong Kong residential buildings. He won the World Press Photo Award and the American Photography Award in 2005, and has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Deutsches Architektur Museum in Frankfurt, the Museum der Arbeit in Hamburg, and the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, as well as in numerous art galleries across Asia, Europe and the United States.

His work is included in a number of prestigious collections, including The New York Metropolitan Museum Of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Deutsches Architektur Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Folkwang Museum in Essen. His large-scale installation "The Real Toy Story" was on view at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago in 2006, and has since toured to museums in Germany and Finland.

Five monographs of Michael Wolf’s work have been published to date: “HONG KONG Inside Outside” (AsiaOne/Peperoni Books, 2009), “Transparent City” (Aperture, 2009), “Hong Kong: Front Door/Back Door” (Thames and Hudson, 2005), "Sitting in China” (Steidl, 2002), and "China in Transition” (Frederking und Thaler, 2001). In addition, two new monographs will be published in September 2010 by Peperoni Books: “Tokyo Compression” and “A Series of Unfortunate Events”.

For more information and images of Michael Wolf’s photography works, please visit http://www.m97gallery.com/artist/?artist=michael_wolf&series=1