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Yu Hong

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Yu Hong: Islands of the Mind

LISSON GALLERY
Text by Greg Hilty, Daniel S. Palmer.

Inspired by the iconic Symbolist series by Arnold Böcklin, Yu Hong creates contemporary mournful islands of her own

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Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust

DELMONICO BOOKS
Edited with text by Alexandra Munroe. Text by Michael Armitage, Loredana Gazzara, Nico Muhly, Yu Hong.

Virtuosic, large-scale figurative paintings that capture contemporary anxieties in harsh relief

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Yu Hong: Islands of the MindYu Hong: Islands of the Mind

Published by Lisson Gallery.
Text by Greg Hilty, Daniel S. Palmer.

Chinese painter Yu Hong (born 1966) constructs modern-day fables and complex, allegorical compositions that channel historical, narrative-driven art as seen through a fiercely contemporary lens. Her newest series is inspired by the elegiac funeral depicted in Island of the Dead (1880–1901), the most famous work of Swiss Symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901). Each painting by Yu features figures on a solitary island beset by crashing waves. Each entry represents a different emotion, underpinned by dread, until the viewer is able to, in Böcklin’s words, "dream into the world of dark shadows." This body of work expands on the large, dramatic scenes Yu exhibited as part of Another One Bites the Dust, her first major solo exhibition that occurred during the Venice Biennale, characterized by their grandiose, often grotesque depictions of contemporary social anxieties.



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Yu Hong: Another One Bites the DustYu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust

Published by DelMonico Books.
Edited with text by Alexandra Munroe. Text by Michael Armitage, Loredana Gazzara, Nico Muhly, Yu Hong.

Published to accompany a major site-specific installation in Venice, Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust offers an in-depth examination of the work of one of China’s foremost living artists, renowned internationally for her virtuosic large-scale figurative paintings. Yu Hong’s (born 1966) practice centers on humane depictions of contemporary life that are both deeply personal and astute in their observations of larger societal realities. Featuring beautiful installation photography of Venice’s Chiesetta della Misericordia, this book presents a new cycle of works painted on gold ground that depict the arc of human experience while referencing aspects of Buddhist narrative painting, Byzantine icons and the Italian Baroque. Through her lushly painted stories, she considers the radical changes pressed on humanity by the speed and totality of globalization, the existential climate emergency, diaspora and dispossession in many parts of the world, and the uneven histories of postcolonialism. Yu Hong’s subject is the precarity of meaning in the face of calamitous disruption.



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Catalog: FALL 2024 p. 114   

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Yu Hong: Golden HorizonYu Hong: Golden Horizon

Published by Charta/Long March Space.
Text by Zhang Qing, Alexandra Munroe, Du Xiaozhen.

Beijing-based artist Yu Hong (born 1966) is well known for her large-scale paintings on canvas, silk and sheets of resin, which marry older styles and idioms—from Chinese cave painting to Italian Renaissance frescoes—with imagery from contemporary life in China. Her youthful men and women are frequently depicted as if in mid-air, pitched against luscious monochrome backdrops (sometimes rendered in gold leaf). A prominent figure among those Chinese artists of the 1980s who eschewed the dominant Socialist Realism to explore more psychological terrain, Yu Hong has maintained a commitment to figuration, using its narrative possibilities to explore themes of gender, cultural conditioning, and, increasingly, the visual language of spirituality. Published on the occasion of Yu Hong’s major 2011 exhibition at the Shanghai Art Museum, Golden Horizon brings together the artist’s recent bodies of work including her newest series of paintings made specifically for this show.

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Hardcover, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 132 pgs / 95 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2012 p. 155   

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Yu Hong: Golden SkyYu Hong: Golden Sky

Published by Shanghai Century Publishing Co.,Ltd.
Edited by Qiao Cui. Foreword by Jérôme Sans. Text by Yaoyao Wu.

In her new series Golden Sky, acclaimed painter Yu Hong reanimates history by combining classical and religious composition with scenes from secular life. Inspired by the Buddhist cave paintings of Dunhuang and Kizil, classical western art and her own reading, the artist populates her large canvases with life-size men, women and children going about their daily lives against the backdrop of a golden sky.

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Shanghai Century Publishing Co.,Ltd

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Hardcover, 7.25 x 9.75 in. / 123 pgs / 123 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2011 p. 142   

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