He Sen: Paintings - Hardcover
Chinese painter He Sen (born 1968) has been gaining increased attention for his exquisite photorealist paintings of young women. His subjects wear lingerie or pajamas as they strike casually, almost naively seductive poses and fix languid, near-vacant stares off into the distance, at a blaring television, or directly at the viewer. These women are rendered almost exclusively in blacks and grays, and the surfaces of their skin and nylon stockings have an eerily smooth texture. He's paintings blatantly mobilize the sexualized beauty of their nymphets, yet the only moments of color in these shadowed portraits are all inanimate commodities: copper bangle bracelets, a splash of pink lipstick, a goblet of wine. And the only traces of a classically expressive hand are to be found in the practically Impressionist plumes of smoke that issue from the models' cigarettes: ephemeral, polluted, fatal.
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- PublisherDamiani
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 8862081375
- ISBN 13 9788862081375
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages160
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Book Description Condition: new. Testo Italiano e Inglese. Bologna, 2010; ril., pp. 159, ill., tavv. col., cm 24,5x29. "The Chinese painter He Sen was born in the Yunnan province in 1968, that is at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. Twenty years later he began his artistic training at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, in 1989, the year the democratic movement in China was put down. He Sen's career has therefore been - whether consciously or unconsciously - permeated by transformations which have shaped Chinese society until the present, and ultimately coincided with the ongoing phase of rapid urban and economic growth. Since 1998 the painter has been (almost) exclusively interested in the portrayal of girls and women, pictures which are distinguished by their exact finishing as much as their detailed depiction. By 2000 this precision had achieved such perfection that any further development was hardly possible. He Sen's paintings show anonymous young women alone with no further description, always placed against an undifferentiated and monochrome background. A few props such as an armchair, table, sofa or bed as well as accessories such as a single bottle of whiskey, a glass, a packet of cigarettes, a mobile telephone or occasionally a cuddly toy suffice the painter to depict his models within a space which at most only hints at a room, embellished only by vague shadows or occasionally visible cigarette smoke". Dirk Steimann. Seller Inventory # 2004718
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Book Description HARDCOVER. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Large heavy 4to. in colour printed thick boards, 159pp on stiff art paper, colour plates, etc. Published on the occasion of the Exhibition 'He Sen - Scenari Illusori' (Primo Marella Gallery, Milan 8 April - 28 May 2010). Dual text in English and Italian CONDITION: NEW unread and unmarked copy ] __NOTE Due to size, weight or for insurance purposes delivery to some destinations outside the UK may cost more than the shipping price shown above. Orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost._ __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS. Seller Inventory # T17H2332
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