Untitled, 2005
“Chinese artist Yue Minjun’s recent work features the artist’s laughing face, caught between ecstasy and idiocy and projected into iconic cultural images.
Born in 1962 in China’s Heilongjiang province, Yue grew up under Mao Zedong’s reign. His father worked in the oil fields of northeast China, and Yue himself labored in the state oil sector until his director allowed him to leave for art school. He attended Hebei Normal University, studying oil painting, and witnessed the rise and fall of the Chinese art scene of the ’80s. With his distinct synthesis of the humorous and the horrific, Yue has achieved incredible success in the international art market.”
‘Yue Minjun and the Symbolic Smile’ can be viewed at the Queens Museum of Art, New York, website. You can also read Yue Minjun’s interview with Artkrush here.
[Citation: Reproduced from Artkrush]
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