THE POWER OF LAUGHTER Yue Minjun

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  ('The Execution', 1995)

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  (Free and Leisure series No.12,2004)

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  ('Handgun')

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  (Free and at Leisure series No.9)

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  ('Backyard Garden' series)

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  ('The Tao of Laughter' No.5)

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  ('Untitled' Smile-ism series No.24)

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  ('Big Swans', 2005)

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  Yue Minjun

Wonderfully contorted and almost grotesque and maniacal pink-skinned, grinning caricature-like faces of the artist himself - giving us an "inventive take on self-portraiture" - frozen in laughter, often submerged in compositions based on well known European masterpieces and iconic Chinese art. That and much more is Beijing-based contemporary Chinese artist Yue Minjun. Theorist Li Xianting as described his work as “a self-ironic response to the spiritual vacuum and folly of modern-day China.”

“My work is to do with the fundamental agony of being human and the sense of confusion that comes with living in our society. A smile doesn’t necessarily mean happiness; it could be something else.”

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