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| I.D. Cards of a Generation |
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| Artist : | Yin Xin |
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| Date : | 19 May, 2004 - 19 June, 2004 |
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| Press Release |
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Attention: ART EDITORS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
I.D. CARDS OF A GENERATION, Paintings by Yin Xin showing at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery for this FRENCH MAY 2004
Hong Kong, May 2004--A layer of paint is hastily thrown partially on a canvas. The edges remain raw and the faces look at you. Hundreds of faces or are they the millions of faces of Cultural Revolutionary youth? These I.D. card-like paintings are the theme of Chinese artist Yin Xin's paintings. The deeply provocative portraits represent the lost generation of China's Cultural Revolution. Yin Xin's current works are full of the memories that haunt this artist living outside of China since 1988, living in Paris since 1991. He comes back to this theme again and again as if it is his therapy.
The important qualities of a Chinese past that Yin Xin is both nostalgic for and questions not only come across in the soft, sometimes sepia tones and craggily textured surfaces of his canvases, the static composition of his figures and their historical dress but also in his powerful rendition of faces. In each painting his faces at once show no emotion yet say so much. Facial expressions are restrained yet not lacking in depth. They reflect a human sincerity, sobriety and sensibility which, he believes, no longer exists. "Today's face is about image, faces of the past have more to say, they have a real beauty. I want my faces to tell you something. For Chinese people everything is behind the face."
Long time patron and sponsor of Yin Xin, Mr. David Tang, says "Yin Xin's latest works once again dramatize both history and scale ?evoking the days of China's Communist revolutionary fervour in which individual identity was unhelpably lost, yet with these individuals en masse, they form a powerful collection and recollection. Yin Xin's intensity is extraordinary. The viewer is forever torn between charm and pathos; history and future; individualism and collectivism."
While much contemporary Chinese painting is evolving to suit the fads of the international art market, Yin Xin dances to his own tune, saying only that his works are expressions of his emotion which he hopes will "touch" the emotions of those who see them. Obviously they do; his last three Hong Kong show was near sell outs. This Hong Kong exhibition follows huge success in New York, Paris, Tokyo, Italy and London where he was one of the most talked-about and widely-sold artists at artLondon, the capital's latest international 20th-century art fair.
10 Chancery Lane Gallery will open Yin Xin's "I.D. Cards of a Generation" on May 19th and the exhibition will run through June 19th. There will be a cocktail reception for the artist on Wednesday May 19th from 6:30-9pm.
For interviews contact Katie de Tilly or Cleo Lam at 2810-0065.
YIN XIN
I.D. CARDS OF A GENERATION
RECEPTION: MAY 19TH 6-9PM
Exhibition runs until June 19, 2004
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