NEW YORK, NY.- Wang Qingsong: When Worlds Collide, a solo exhibition by one of Chinas most innovative contemporary artists, is on view at the International Center of Photography through May 8, 2011. Featuring a dozen large-scale photographs and three video works, it is the most extensive U.S. showing to date of the work of this leading Chinese artist. Since turning from painting to photography in the late 1990s, Beijing-based artist Wang Qingsong (pronounced wahng ching sahng) has created compelling works that convey an ironic vision of 21st-century Chinas encounter with global consumer culture. Working in the manner of a motion-picture director, he conceives elaborate scenarios involving dozens of models that are staged on film studio sets. The resulting color photographs employ knowing references to classic Chinese artworks to throw an unexpected light on todays China, emphasizing its new material