Ma Desheng
Ma Desheng (born 1952 in Beijing, lives and works in Paris) is a poet, performer and artist. In the spring of 1979, he participated in the first exhibition of non-official painting organized in Beijing by the artistic group “Stars,” of which he is a founding member. In 1985, he left China for Switzerland and, in 1986, he settled in Paris. He is an emblematic figure of Chinese artistic and cultural resistance.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Fragments of the total poetry of the Franco-Chinese poet, performer and artist, an emblematic figure of the Chinese artistic and cultural resistance.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
99 photo-poems by the Franco-Chinese poet, performer and artist, an emblematic figure of Chinese artistic and cultural resistance.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Fragments of the total poetry and photo-poems of the Franco-Chinese poet, performer and artist, an emblematic figure of the Chinese artistic and cultural resistance. The limted edition gathers the two volumes (Episode 1 and 2), numbered from 1 to 20, with an original signed artwork inserted in each of them, constituting a dyptic.
2010
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Publication bringing together a series of self-portraits inspired by the expressive vocabulary of the mask. The photographs showcase a multiplicity of feelings contradicted by paradoxical captions.
