Yue Minjun

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Untitled, Smile-ism  No.16, 2006

Sea of the Brain

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Lovers, Hats Series, 2005, oil on canvas, 170 x 140 cm

Backyard Garden, 2007, oil on canvas,  400 x 280 cm

Armed Forces, 2005, oil on canvas, 170 x 140 cm

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Inside and outside the Stage, 2009, oil on canvas, 336 x 267cm

I am Dragon – 2, 2008, oil on canvas, 220 x 200 cm

The Execution, 1996, 0il on canvas,  150 x 300 cm

Mr. Yue was born in 1962 in the far northern Heilongjiang Province of China and as a child moved to Beijing with his parents. He studied oil painting at the Hebei Normal University and graduated in 1989, when China was rocked by student-led demonstrations and their suppression on Tiananmen Square in June of that year.
“My mood changed at that time,” he said. “I was very down. I realized the gap between reality and the ideal, and I wanted to create my own artistic definition, whereby there could be a meeting with social life and the social environment.”

Tiina Heiska

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From the Series Twin Room, 2009, oil on canvas, 110 x 190 cm

From the Series Spell, 2010, oil on canvas, 130 x 220 cm

From the Series Mermaid  Legs, 2010, oil on canvas, 90 x 170 cm

From the Series The Eclipse, 2006, oil on canvas, 146 x 280 cm

From the Series Growing Small,  2008, oil on canvas, 50 x 76 cm

From the Series Twin Room, 2009, oil on canvas,  100 x 160 cm

From the Series Spell, 2010, oil on canvas, 130 x 190 cm

From the Series Spell, 2010, oil on canvas, 130 x 170 cm

From the Series Butterflly Caught, 2008, oil on canvas, 100 x 190 cm

From The Series Twin Room, 2009, oil on canvas, 100 x 200 cm

Artist Statement
For some years now, I have been creating series of paintings in which my themes evolve from one painting to the next. My work is based on photography, which I use as a sketch or a draft for the later painted image, and it’s intricately linked to cinematography. However where traditional cinema relies on a continuous flow of events and thereby creates a story with a beginning and an end, my work is comprised of several series of stills. My paintings form no obvious storyline but rather leave it to the viewer’s imagination to bridge the gap between image and story.

Yang ShiBin

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