
Yan Pei-Ming (born in Shanghai in 1960) grew up in the civil war atmosphere of the end of the Cultural Revolution. He arrived in France in the early 1980’s and settled in Dijon, where he studied at the School of Fine Arts, then at the Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques in Paris. Yan Pei-Ming is known for his huge dichromatic portraits painted with sweeping brush strokes, often saturated with black, white and sometimes red. As a portraitist interested in current affairs, he paints in close-up the faces of popular and political figures such as Chairman Mao and Barack Obama, while also making more intimate portraits.
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition held at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, from 20 September 2014 to 17 May 2015.
Author: Xavier Douroux (dir.)
Technical details: 23 x 28.6 cm, 80 pages, perfect binding
Graphic design: Franck Gautherot
Bilingual edition (French/English)
Co-edition Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles / Les Presses du Réel
Published in September 2014
ISBN: 978-2-84066-734-6
Price: € 22
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