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Summary:

"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"-- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

Yu, Hong, 1966- , artist, writer of supplementary textual content

Contributors:

Munroe, Alexandra , contributor

Armitage, Michael, 1984- , writer of supplementary textual content

Gazzara, Loredana , writer of supplementary textual content

Muhly, Nico , writer of supplementary textual content

Chemollo, Alessandra , photographer

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , host institution, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Chiesetta della Misericordia (Venice, Italy) , host institution, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Meetings:

Biennale di Venezia (60th : 2024 : Venice, Italy)

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Yu Hong: another one bites the dust [by Yu, H.]

Subjects:

Yu, Hong, 1966- — Exhibitions

Yu, Hong, 1966-

Genres:

Exhibition catalogs

General Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust, a special off-site exhibition of the Asian Art Initiative of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, presented concurrently with the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, at the Chiesetta della Misericordia, Canareggio, Venice, April 20-November 24, 2024.
Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

143 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

N7349.Y765 A4 2024

ISBNs:

9781636811512 (hardcover)
1636811515 (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024936766

OCLC Numbers:

1452296962