Yan Pei-Ming: YES!

Yan Pei-Ming: YES!
Walter and McBean Galleries
San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street (San Francisco, CA 94133)
through May 23, 2009

“Having grown up in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution of the 60s and 70s, felt the first flickers of the post–Mao Zedong reforms, and then moved to France in 1980, Yan Pei-Ming is an apt representative of a generation of global citizens who have at once weathered the alienating mutations of late-twentieth-century geopolitics and relevantly contributed to the ongoing globalization process ensuing upon them. Indeed, the fact that he has existed and worked at the crossroads of global struggle, both physical and spiritual, is what centrally informs his creative activities, generating a new and contemporary relevance for the historic medium of painting. Yan Pei-Ming: YES!—Yan’s West Coast premiere—brings together new and recent work that focuses and reflects on the pressing geopolitical issues and conflicts of our current moment.”

[Text from Art Institute electronic mailing. Image from the spring 2008 Codroipo, Itally Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art exhibition “God & Goods - Spirituality and Mass Confusion.” Capton: “Yan Pei-Ming, 100 American Dollars, 2007-2008, Watercolour on paper, 154 x 330 cm. Courtesy Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano. ©Yan Pei-Ming, ADAGP, 2008, France. Photo by André Morin.” Cross posted to Signal Fire, Provisions Library's blog.]