Third Front I – Water Bridge
三线 I – 矿山边的水中桥

Location 地点 : LG 地面下层

Artist 艺术家 : Chen Jia Gang 陈家刚

Chen Jia Gang, a former architect and businessman, is a photographer who focuses on China’s outlying industrial landscape. Chen’s evocative photographs have been exhibited worldwide including Canada, America, France, Italy and China. The title of his widely exhibited series is “Third Front” which explores the landscape of the big industrial towns built in the Cold War (1960s to 70s). This collection establishes Chen as an important cultural innovator and forces our attention on the industralisation of the countryside.

陈家刚乃国际知名的中国当代摄影师，前身为一名建筑师及商人，主要以拍摄中国边陲工业地区为题材，他曾于世界各地如加拿大、美国、法国、意大利及中国等国家举办展览会，当中以名为《三线》的系列最为人熟悉，探讨了那些于中国冷战时期(1960年至70年) 所建成的工业重镇。此系列不但让陈家刚成为一个重要的文化先驱者，更引起我们对中国周边城市工业化发展的反省。

Series name 系列名称 : Third Front 三线

This series shows the Chinese government’s series of initiatives in the 1960s in constructing a new frontier of industrialism in Southern towns. Just as quickly as they were erected, these frontiers became isolated and disappeared only a couple of decades later. Chen said in an interview that “Third Front shows the powerful physical effects of political consciousness” and he captured the infrastructures in these under-developed provinces to remark on the footprint left behind by revolutionary concept of social idealism. In addition, Chen’s works challenge the complicated relationship between human development, resources and the environment.

陈家刚《三线》系列是中国政府于六十年代在南方地区建设的工业城市的印证，这些城镇快速地冒起，亦如建立般，于短短三十年间突然消失。陈家刚于一个访问中指《三线》系列体现了政治因素对建设的巨大影响，他记录这些快被人遗忘的工业建设，引证了这一切均源于人对社会理想主义及革新的渴望。再者，他的作品引发人们思考人与资源及环境三者之间的关系。