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Birth
1962 (Daqing, Heilongjiang Province, China)
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China
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post-modern, laughing face motif painting, sculpture, installations
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Living in Beijing, he is a representative of Cynical Realism, a movement which developed in the post-1989 era in Chinese art. 1989 not only marks the events at Tiananmen Square but also the closure of the China Avant Garde exhibition at the National Gallery by the government.
Minjun's work always features a laughing face, his own, in an exaggerated way, thus giving the image often a cynical or mocking appearance. The use of bright colors, the expression of the figures, often r (showing 500 of 824 characters). |
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