Hatje Cantz

Hatje Cantz - Un enterrement a shanghai | yan pei-ming

• 3 stele, bazat pe 1 voturi

• The first place the twenty-year-old Yan Pei-Ming visited in France in 1980 was Ornans
• The birthplace of the French Realist Gustave Courbet
• Thirty-nine years later
• He takes the 200th anniversary of the birthday of his hero as an opportunity to show monumental reverence toward him and his masterpiece
• An Interment in Ornans (1849
• 50) at the Musee d’Orsay
• Yan Pei-Ming transforms and translates this scene into a contemporary Interment in Shang-hai
• The city where he grew up
• And where his mother is buried
• The artist’s book documents this undertaking in 290 divisible fragments