Made in Asia Catalogue
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Yan Pei M<strong>in</strong>g (b. 1960)<br />
Yan Pei M<strong>in</strong>g is a Ch<strong>in</strong>ese artist. He was born <strong>in</strong> Shanghai, Ch<strong>in</strong>a <strong>in</strong> 1960. Fus<strong>in</strong>g the Western<br />
tradition of portrait pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g with Ch<strong>in</strong>a’s cultural history, Yan Pei M<strong>in</strong>g creates large-scale works<br />
depict<strong>in</strong>g real and imag<strong>in</strong>ary people. Yan’s portraits, typically mono- or bi-chromatic, often verge on<br />
abstraction, with broad, patterned brushstrokes and drips of pa<strong>in</strong>t. He is perhaps best known for<br />
his monumental self-portraits, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g Double (Selfportrait at the Morgue) (2006), a watercolor of the<br />
artist as a dead man, as well as his eight-foot-tall portraits of Mao Zedong, Bruce Lee and his father.<br />
Tête no. 5, 2003<br />
Charcoal on paper . 78.7 x 49.2 <strong>in</strong> | 200 x 125 cm<br />
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