Yue Minjun
Dicecream Magazine🔳Yue Minjun (born 1962) is a contemporary Chinese artist based in Beijing, China.
He is best known for oil paintings depicting himself in various settings, frozen in laughter. He has also reproduced this signature image in sculpture, watercolour and prints.
Yue’s brightly colored depictions of maniacally laughing figures are influenced both by Pop Art and Surrealism.
His works act as a tacit form of social and political critique which deals with both Chinese history and the Western canon of art.
“I’m actually trying to make sense of the world,” he said of his work. “There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.”
Current exhibitions:
OPERA GALLERY, Made in Asia, New York, Mar 14 – 27
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