Yun-Fei Ji: The Empty City - Softcover

Chiu, Melissa; Lin, Tan; Volk, Gregory; Ha, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971219532 ISBN 13: 9780971219533

Publisher: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2005

Synopsis

From a distance, Yun-Fei Ji's traditional brush paintings hark back to the atmospheric landscapes of the Sung Dynasty painters. Step closer though, and Ji's mists are revealed to be toxic clouds, and his craggy mountains are shown to be piles of overflowing garbage and abandoned vehicles. His misty imagery also includes stylized abstractions that may or may not refer to intestines, explosions or bubbling slime. Using traditional materials (inks, Chinese brushes and handmade mulberry paper) Ji employs age-old methods to illuminate historic and contemporary concerns. This full-color monograph/catalogue includes a new thematic group of six large-scale works made especially for the exhibition. Multi-page gatefolds of these paintings are included.

About this edition

• Publisher: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0971219532
• ISBN 13: 9780971219533
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 95
• Editor: Fitzgerald Shannon