Yun-Fei Ji: Empty City

by Yun-Fei Ji

Other authorsShannon Fitzgerald (Editor)
Paperback, 2004

Status

Available

Call number

MON.JYF

Publication

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

Description

From a distance, Yun-Fei Ji's traditional brush paintings hark back to the atmospheric landscapes of the Sung Dynasty painters. Step closer though, and Ji's mists are revealed to be toxic clouds, and his craggy mountains are shown to be piles of overflowing garbage and abandoned vehicles. His misty imagery also includes stylized abstractions that may or may not refer to intestines, explosions or bubbling slime. Using traditional materials (inks, Chinese brushes and handmade mulberry paper) Ji employs age-old methods to illuminate historic and contemporary concerns. This full-color monograph/catalogue includes a new thematic group of six large-scale works made especially for the exhibition. Multi-page gatefolds of these paintings are included.… (more)

Language

ISBN

0971219532 / 9780971219533
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