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Face Painting — Bamboo

Huang Yan

  • Year : 2004
  • Technique : C-print
  • Support : Collage on plexiglass
  • Editions : Edition of 15
  • Signature : Hand-signed
  • Thèmes : Chinese contemporary art, Photography & performance

In 1999, Huang Yan began a series of landscape paintings on the human body entitled “Chinese Landscapes”, in which he tatooes his own body to reference a heritage that is inherent in Chinese culture, these traditional landscape paintings which have become the embodiment of Chinese art. This work has been remarked by famous curators and by Ai Wei Wei himself, who included it into his exhibition Fuck Off in 2000.

Artist

Huang Yan

Huang Yan

Huang Yan est né à Jilin en 1966. Il est diplômé de l'Académie normale de Changchun en 1987. Poète inspiré par la tradition classique de la calligraphie et du paysage, Huang Yan, aidé par sa femme Zhang Tiemei, recouvre différents supports - chair et os de boeuf tout d'abord, puis son propre corps - de paysages montagneux bleu-verts. Cet art, qui revisite la tradition, est avant tout conceptuel et résolument contemporain, il rejoint une préoccupation chinoise pour le corps humain considéré comme un tabou par le pouvoir communiste. 

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