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Yue Minjun

L’Ombre du fou rire

  • Exhibition, Paris
  • Wed 14 Nov 2012 → Sun 17 Mar 2013
L'ombre du fou rire Yue Minjun 2013
Vue de l'expostion Yue Minjun, L'ombre du fou rire, Paris, 2012-2013 © Yue Minjun Photo © Grégoire Eloy, Tendance Floue

Location

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

261 boulevard Raspail

75014 Paris

The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents the first major European exhibition dedicated to the Chinese artist Yue Minjun, a unique opportunity to discover the work of an artist who, in spite of his international renown, continues to maintain a relatively low profile.

Yue Minjun’s paintings, with their colorful iconography, peopled by enigmatically laughing characters, reinvent the grotesque and its codes, while expressing an ironic and disillusioned vision of the social situation in contemporary China, as well as of the human condition in the modern world.

Featuring nearly 40 paintings from collections around the world, as well as a wide array of drawings that have never been shown to the general public, this exhibition will reveal the singular and complex aesthetic of a work that defies all interpretation.

L'ombre du fou rire Yue Minjun 2013
Vue de l'expostion Yue Minjun, L'ombre du fou rire, Paris, 2012-2013 © Yue Minjun Photo © Grégoire Eloy, Tendance Floue

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