Actually, I’m pretty tired of the usual images of Eastern tiger cities – skyscrapers, people crammed in subways, shoddy alleyways – not that I’m not intrigued like everyone else by the rise of Asia, but I’ve just seen them way too often. No exception to the rule is German but China-based photographer Michael Wolf, who has photographed, well, skyscrapers, people crammed in subways, shoddy alleyways – but it is kind of hard to not be seduced his visual language, simply because he does so with such manic obsession that is unparalleled, and to great aesthetic effect. So hey, he does it extremely well. Judge for yourself with his current exhibition at Flowers Gallery in London.
Michael Wolf
25 November 2011 – 07 January 2012
Flowers Gallery
82 Kingsland Road
London E2 8DP
