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Wild Game

Yan Pei-Ming

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24.02.2022 | 02.04.2022
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Marking the beginning of the Lunar New Year, MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present Wild Game, Yan Pei-Ming’s new solo exhibition in Milan – and the first in the gallery HQ – premiering a new body of work. The gallery represents Yan Pei-Ming since 1998.

Known around the world for his monumental, often monochromatic canvasses, painted with vigorous, sweeping brushstrokes, Yan Pei-Ming's work is characterized by his use of a two-toned monochrome colour palette in black and white or red and white, thereby directing stronger focus towards the subject and composition of his works. In all the series, Yan Pei-Ming’s fluid yet precise technique, use of repetition, and shallow pictorial space infuse his images with an eerie morbidity, thus reinforcing their connection to real, indescribable, events.

Renowned for his expressionistic portraits of influential historical characters and animals, MASSIMODECARLO’s exhibition revisits in this new body of work the themes and motifs that haunt him. Familiar motifs such as the self-portrait, Innocent X, an evocation of Velasquez, are joined by landscapes of Shanghai and Milan, landscapes of a vivid, nostalgic and majestic expressionism.

Born in Shanghai in 1960, Yan Pei-Ming grew up amidst the Cultural Revolution in China, since 1980 the artist is living and working in Dijon, France. The duality of eastern and western cultural experiences has led to Yan Pei-Ming’s expressive style and meticulous palette that during his thirty-year practice has acquired international success and recognition. While his works often appear almost abstract at close range, they become increasingly sharper with distance, an effect intended to blur the lines between reality and imagination.

The illustration of status and power in traditional portraiture is particularly significant to his work, which reconnects with the archetypes of centuries-old conventions of representation. In an era of inflationary reproduction and digital exploitation, his subjects express the tension between conventional forms and contemporary relevance, thus allowing interpretation on a classical as well as a modern level.

Urban violence is found in the tiger descending the mountain, on the lookout for substance in a hostile world, or in the motif of the flayed ox, removed from its reference to Rembrandt, through the savage and contemporary extraction of Francis Bacon's Figure with Meat, a bloody beast in a clinical environment that leaves nothing to the poetic.

Working from memory or from photographic images, Yan Pei-Ming's paintings intertwine both personal and cultural imagery: fame and anonymity, public figures and intimate subjects, dialogue inside his work which is a deep reflection on human condition.

Yan Pei-Ming crystallizes the manifestations of power in his portraits of animals, symbols of strength, views of centralized cities of economic and cultural energies, and historical figures. His subjects, apparently disconnected from each other, are part of a rational approach to reality that explores the symbols and icons of contemporaneity, tracing and amplifying painting tradition and at the same time renewing its language.

Yan Pei-Ming

严培明(1960年生于中国上海)目前生活工作于法国第戎。


从其职业生涯的开始,严培明就对人物和肖像画产生极大的兴趣。他创作了一系列具有表现主义和纪念意义的画像,如佛像、教皇、李小龙,以及一些包括自画像和其父亲肖像在内的个人主题画作。


严培明从不断地绘画中探索使肖像画脱胎换骨的方式,最为著名的是使用一把长如拖把的笔刷,用黑白或者红白相间的颜料快速在画布上层层描绘出作品中经典的形象。


其作品被众多重要机构收藏,包括:澳大利亚国家美术馆,堪培拉;海蒂·霍顿藏品博物馆;S.M.A.K.,根特;广东美术馆,广州;上海美术馆,上海;余德耀美术馆,上海,蓬皮杜艺术中心,巴黎;兰伯特收藏馆;阿维尼翁;弗朗索瓦·皮诺基金会,巴黎;路易威登基金会,巴黎;新地区当代艺术博物馆,第戎;维勒班当代艺术中心,维勒班;LE CONSORTIUM,第戎;角斗场,图卢兹;巴黎现代艺术博物馆,巴黎;第戎美术馆,第戎;雷恩美术馆,雷恩;保尔·瓦雷里博物馆,塞特;德意志银行收藏,法兰克福;曼海姆美术馆,曼海姆;路德维希博物馆,科隆;BANCA POPOLARE DI BERGAMO,贝加莫;COLLEZIONE FONDAZIONE SAN PATRIGNANO,里米尼;贝加莫现当代美术馆,贝加莫;国立二十一世纪艺术博物馆,罗马;东京国立近代美术馆,东京;卡塔尔博物馆管理局,多哈;善载当代艺术博物馆,庆州;WOOYANG MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART,庆州;马拉加当代艺术中心,马拉加;福尔林登博物馆,瓦塞纳;阿布扎比卢浮宫,阿布扎比;檀香山艺术学院,檀香山;檀香山美术馆,檀香山;夏威夷州立艺术博物馆,檀香山;TIA COLLECTION,圣达非。


严培明的作品曾参加威尼斯双年展,意大利(1995年,2003年);里昂双年展,法国(1997年,2003年);SEVILLE BIENNIAL,西班牙(2006年);伊斯坦布尔双年展,伊斯坦布尔(2007年);曼谷双年展(2018年)。

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