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Acrylic painting on canvas. Silver lines in a roughly symmetrical pattern enter and exit all four edges of a mottled brown canvas. Long lines of black dots follow their paths like colonies of ants.

Acrylic painting on canvas. Silver lines in a roughly symmetrical pattern enter and exit all four edges of a mottled brown canvas. Long lines of black dots follow their paths like colonies of ants.

Acrylic painting on canvas. Silver lines in a roughly symmetrical pattern enter and exit all four edges of a mottled brown canvas. Long lines of black dots follow their paths like colonies of ants.

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation, © Yu Youhan

Yu Youhan 余友涵

1990-18

1990

1990-18 represents Yu Youhan’s experimentation with abstraction. The painting is characterised by spots of red that gleam through a surface that’s painted primarily in brown. The centre focuses on dotted black lines that run fluidly run along bold and expressive grey lines. The overall composition of the work implies the presence of geometric patterns without a specific cohesive form. The abstractness of 1990-18 adheres to Yu’s cosmological vision in painting; lines and dots are key symbols of circulation and action, and the work channels infinity in the cycle of life to break down the barrier between the spiritual and corporeal worlds.

Mapping Chinese Art, 1972–2012: Selections for the M+ Sigg Collection. M+, Hong Kong, 2019. sigg.mplus.org.hk

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Object Number:

2012.1313

Object Type:

Related Makers:

Yu Youhan (Artist)

Medium:

acrylic on canvas

Date:

1990

Dimensions:

frame: 166.2 × 136.1 cm; overall: 159.6 × 131.2 cm

Collection:

M+ Sigg Collection

Credit Line:

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation

Copyright:

© Yu Youhan

About the Maker:

Yu Youhan (born Shanghai, 1943-2023) graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Industrial Arts in 1970, He works in painting with the aesthetic style of Political Pop, which fuses Chinese iconography with Western artistic expression, thereby illuminating the meeting point of two cultural histories.

Yu Youhan Painting Visual Art M+ Sigg Collection

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