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Oil painting on canvas depicting Mao Zedong and four other men examining Marcel Duchamp’s sculpture of a urinal, entitled Fountain. The painting is rendered in black and white, apart from a bright orange border inside the edge.

Oil painting on canvas depicting Mao Zedong and four other men examining Marcel Duchamp’s sculpture of a urinal, entitled Fountain. The painting is rendered in black and white, apart from a bright orange border inside the edge.

Oil painting on canvas depicting Mao Zedong and four other men examining Marcel Duchamp’s sculpture of a urinal, entitled Fountain. The painting is rendered in black and white, apart from a bright orange border inside the edge.

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation, © Shi Xinning

Shi Xinning 石心寧

Duchamp Retrospective Exhibition in China 杜尚回顧展在中國

2000–2001

This painting is a surreal juxtaposition of Mao with Marcel Duchamp’s urinal ready-made Fountain. Shi Xinning’s work is based on an original photograph featuring the Chairman’s visit to an industrial product fair. His placement of Mao in an unrealistic context is a play on history writing and presents his exploration of an alternate China. Shi’s artistic practice often focuses on themes related to the Cultural Revolution. In the early 2000s, he began to incorporate Mao into Western historical events in his paintings, in the style of socialist realism.

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:

2012.913

Object Type:

Related Makers:

Shi Xinning (Artist)

Medium:

oil on canvas

Date:

2000–2001

Dimensions:

overall: 100 × 100 cm

Collection:

M+ Sigg Collection

Credit Line:

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation

Copyright:

© Shi Xinning

About the Maker:

Shi Xinning (born 1969, Liaoning Province) graduated from Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in 1990. His paintings, influenced by social realism and European styles, draw on iconic photographs of figures such as Mao Zedong to reflect on the uncanny reality of the twentieth century. Shi lives and works in Beijing.

Shi Xinning Painting Visual Art M+ Sigg Collection

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