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M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation, © Yan Lei
Yan Lei 顏磊
Snake 蛇
2003
In his unique painting process, Yan Lei scans photos and renders them in black and white, separating the various gradients of grey into different numbered areas. Then he airbrushes the areas onto canvas and adds pigment by hand. Here, Yan uses images of real animals to portray the Chinese zodiac and thus omits the dragon. As he removes the subject matter and practice of painting, these works become ordinary images that can be mass-produced, ‘anti-paintings’ that challenge how art is packaged in the market.
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