To celebrate the book's launch, Justin and Aperture have created a special limited edition pigment print, on archival bamboo paper. 11" x 14" in size, it is numbered, signed, and limited to an edition of 50 prints with 5 artists proofs, and available from Aperture here.
Shi Yan Lang, Tong Jian Quan, 2003
The Aperture Microsite
The Aperture Foundation has created a special microsite with rare videos, cool animation, Shaolin Temple history timeline, and photographs.
The Book
The Exhibition
The book will coincide with a 99 piece traveling exhibition, based on the book, and will include six video installations. The exhibit will tour from February 2008 through February 2012.
The exhibition will launch on February 2, 2008 at the Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, in Los Angeles, CA, followed by The National Geographic Museum, in Washington, DC, June 11th - Sept. 11, 2008, before continuing on to other venues throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
Those interested in hosting the exhibition, please contact Diana Edkins, Director of Exhibitions & Limited-Edition Photographs, Aperture Foundation at +1-212-946-7110 or at dedkins@aperture.org
"In these images, Justin Guariglia has captured one of the last oases of pure, unaffected Chinese culture. This sumptuous book is a must for anyone whose imagination is captivated by the search for the edge of human boundaries in a distant land. Justin Guariglia's photographs reveal an extraordinary culture dedicated to the pursuit of discipline and excellence - where mind and body are stretched to the extreme." -Edward Burtynsky
"Justin Guariglia provides a first - a perceptive look at the real monks of Shaolin Temple, their innermost sanctums, their devotional practice, and their traditional disciplines. He captures portraits of these venerated, compassionate warriors, who have survived the Cultural Revolution and ravenous tourists of modern China, and who stand guard at the very birthplace of the martial arts and Zen." -Gene Ching Editor, Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine
This exhibition is sponsored in part by the generous support of Hahnemuhle Paper, and Epson North America.
