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Title
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White Villa Collection
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Description
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A private collection comprised exclusively of Chinese contemporary photographs. Initiated in 1999, it gathers significant artists that have impacted on the history of contemporary photography in China since the 1980s onwards.
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content
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This private collection contains:
- Over 300 photographs created by more than 70 different contemporary Chinese artists;
- Thousands of books, magazines, and exhibition catalogues amongst other publications connected with artists and artworks that belong to the collection;
- Hundreds of postcards;
- About 50 exhibition posters.
Frédéric Robin and Philippe Gilbert are the two French collectors of the White Villa Collection. It offers a subjective overview of the current creation in Chinese photography. Thus far, it is the most important collection of Chinese contemporary photography and artists news in France, and a collection model almost unique worldwide. The desire of drawing up this collection arose in 1999 at the Venice biennale. For them, Chinese artists blew a refreshing wind over this biennial event. Since then, they have been travelling around the world to acquire works from Chinese artists regardless their generation, while sharing their collection with an international audience thanks to their website thought of as a virtual exhibition.
Some photographs are framed; the rest is stored flat.
Images of photographs and publications are digitally stored in an open source relational database management system (MySQL), freely accessible online (see URL below).
Some works belonging to the White Villa Collection were displayed in a few exhibitions, such as “A History of Chinese Contemporary Photography” 2012, Galerie Paris Beijing, Brussels, Belgium; and “Babel” at Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille in 2012.
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Language
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French
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English
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Chinese
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German
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Italian
