The Real Toy Story: Wolf’s project "The Real Toy Story" was originally conceived and produced as a large-scale installation. It features photographic portraits of Chinese toy factory workers surrounded on the walls with 20,000 used plastic toys, all made in China. Wolf collected each and every toy, scouring flea markets in the United States, in an effort to exhibit a cross section of American pop culture. The work portrays the human presence behind mass-produced goods and provides viewers with a visceral, immersive experience that evokes the sensation of density endemic to urban areas of the region. The installation has been exhibited in various international museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, USA. This body of work will be exhibited for the first time at m97 Gallery in Shanghai as a 6-panel installation made up of photographs recreating the entire original installation.
Copy Artist: This series of portraits was photographed in the back alleyways of Shenzhen’s famous Dafen “Art Village,” where an estimated 5 million paintings are produced and copied each year, many of which are facsimiles of famous masterpieces. A Van Gogh can cost as little as 15 yuan, a Da Vinci can cost close to 50 yuan. Stylistically similar to his “Back Door” series of photographs in Hong Kong, Wolf’s “Copy Artist” portraits wryly nudge the viewer to consider the very nature of art and artistry itself, all set against a backdrop of assembly-line-like mass production, alluding to the very fabric of Shenzhen and Guangdong.
100 x 100: In his "100 X 100" series, Michael Wolf focuses on 100 apartments (each 100 square feet – approximately 10 square meters) in the oldest housing development in Hong Kong, which is slated for demolition. The series explores the concept of "personal space" in Hong Kong, with 100 photographs that document the human urge to individualize the impersonal and create a distinct personality through human details amid massive monotony.
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m97艺廊欣喜的宣布 Michael Wolf 的摄影个展“中国项目”。 “中国项目” 将展出三个他从未在中国展出的，不同题材的摄影创作；“100 乘100” “ 拷贝艺术家” 以及 “ 真实的玩具总动员” ， 三个截然不同的体裁。作为一个享有国际注目并在中国境内工作的摄影师，常驻香港，德裔美籍的他以实验性的手法表现复杂的香港与中国社会与景像
自一九九五年便常驻于香港的Michael Wolf，曾推出最广受注目的作品” 建筑密度”，以摄影描绘大幅度色彩斑斓香港公寓建筑的结构，与令人摒息的居住环境。他对现代社会发展，消费现象，版权问题等更深入以及人性化细节的关心，使他摄影作品的观赏者涌出对摩登社会背后的社会问题提出问题与省思。
“真实的玩具总动员” - 由著名的美国梦工厂动画命名，真实的玩具总动员原为Michael Wolf的巨型装置/摄影艺术的结集,在中国境内的玩具工厂补捉其中生态,再使用超过两万个中国制造的模型玩具在周围装饰。他亲身投入美国各地二手市场搜集有脸的玩具的工作, 展现了深入美国广大地区的流行文化, 这份作品实地纪录中国玩具工厂背后功臣对资本主义世界大量生产的商品的贡献与强烈对比, 让观赏者在视觉上感染到在工业密度极高的地区那种大篇幅的震憾。这份作品在世界个地知名的美术馆,如美国芝加哥的现代摄影馆有全面展出过.也将首次在上海M97作摄影部份的展出
拷贝艺术家 ”– 以摩登摄影的手法，纪录在中国专门拷贝名画的画匠的后巷人生，取景于广州有名的 大芬"艺术村",每年都有超过五百万的拷贝名作从此出炉,一幅矾古的作品只价质十五元便能生产,达芬奇的作品贵一点须要五十元. 在某个程度上,这部作品的表现手法很类似他之前的香港作品-"后门". Wolf的这系列作品把焦点集中在资本主义消费现象的真相，每幅人物肖像都展现了全球经济的一丝纤维，讽刺，幽默而充满价值省思。
“100乘100 ” – 纪录人口密度最高的香港一百户历史级公寓人家(居住平均面积为一百平方米)的一百幅众生相，展现工业化社会的贫富差距所描绘出的私人空间运用，创造出极易辨别，属于香港劳工阶级的个人色彩。
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