Huang Yan
黃 岩
Painter, photographer, *1970 Jilin province , lives Beijing and teaches at Changchun University
Huang Yan is a multimedia artist,
Zen-Buddhist, and businessman based in Beijing. He graduated from the
Changchun Normal Academy in 1987, and is currently a lecturer at
Changchun University.
Wikipedia
In 1999, when Huang Yan began a
series of paintings-photographs entitled 'Chinese Landscapes' –
landscapes painted on the skin of a human body – his work was
immediately noticed by Feng Boyi and Ai Weiwei, who selected several
prints for their pivotal and explosive exhibition 'Fuck Off' in
Shanghai in 2000. Very few artists, in expressing the encounter
between Chinese traditional culture and the contemporary world, have
succeeded in simultaneously capturing the fusion and the paradox that
this encounter generates. Huang Yan’s work makes reference to a
Chinese cultural heritage that is innate to every Chinese. Since the
earliest paintings of the Han dynasty and the apotheosis of landscape
painting during the Song dynasty, landscape paintings have been the
quintessence of Chinese art. Huang breaks this heritage giving it a
new direction, by transposing it onto the human body, the human body
that was very rarely used in the ancient culture of painting, but
that has played a very important role in the development of
contemporary art in China since the end of the 1970s.
Chinese
Contemporary
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山水, Shanshui, Mountains and Water, 'Landscape', front and back, 2001
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四季, siji, Four Seasons, 2005, photos Chinese Contemporary
In 2006 Huang became emboldened, embedding nude female bodies in romantic, modern landscapes
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Huang Yan and Family 2007, photo Red
Gate Gallery
Huang is Manchu and therefore allowed to have
more than one child; his wife is also a painter