YAN PEI MING (NÉ EN 1960)

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YAN PEI MING (NÉ EN 1960)
Portrait-Robot, 1992 Oil on canvas, signed and dated on the back 55 x 46 cm PROVENANCE Galerie Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris Private collection, Paris Yan Pei Ming was born at the end of the Cultural Revolution, in 1960 in Shanghai, he was very quickly spotted for his artistic talents that he was asked to use in the service of state propaganda. In 1980, at just twenty years old, the young painter settled in France and was received at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Dijon. Thirteen years later he obtained a place as a resident at Villa Médicis, where he worked on an important project: the 108 brigands. The painter is above all a portrait painter and makes robot portraits on very large formats using brushes or rollers and that he saturates with black, white and grey. This is a portrait of Mao, whom he "really loves" and whom he obsessively represents before adding other faces to his repertoire. It is inspired by everyday life and by prominent and controversial figures, as well as by great political and cultural figures. Yan Pei Ming's talent, ultra-contemporary vision and mastered technique are now recognized not only by collectors and the market since his remarkable participation at the 2003 Fiac, but also by institutions. Indeed, the artist's work is currently on display at the Musée d'Orsay and the Petit Palais, prestigious Parisian museums, to celebrate the bicentenary of Gustave Courbet's birth. The aim is to confront the work of the master of contemporary art with his mentor to show the dialogue and the importance of the history of painting in contemporary creation. "I'm not interested in representing reality... With the portrait, I only deliver a possibility, a hypothesis."
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