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M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation, © Fang Lijun
Fang Lijun 方力鈞
1995.2
1995
In this oil painting, a bald man in a pink shirt stands facing a blue, watery background. His back is turned towards the viewer. Three almost identical bald men in green shirts with hunched shoulders stand between the background and the man, as if emerging from the waters. The bold, bright colours give a vivid sense of space, and the subjects are rendered with technical precision, but the enigmatic subject creates a surreal atmosphere. Bald men and natural elements such as water and the sky recur in Fang Lijun’s paintings. In this work, the position of the man in pink in relation to the other men suggests an encounter between the past and the present. The relationship between an individual and society is a key concern in Fang’s work, and the figures in his paintings from the 1990s are sometimes portrayed as appearing lost and out of place, speaking to the sense of disenchantment amidst massive social and economic changes in China.
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