Yan Xing
Treatise on Ancient Design
When
2018
Yan Xing was born in Chongqing in 1986, currently lives in Los Angeles and Beijing. He graduated from the Oil Painting department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2009. In the same year, he moved to Beijing and founded Yan Xing Studio. In 2012 Yan Xing won the Chinese Contemporary Art Award for Best Young Artist; that year, he also received a nomination for the Future Generation Art Prize from the Pinchuk Art Centre and Focus on Talents Project from Today Art Museum.
Yan Xing is known for his multi-component, interdisciplinary projects that combine diverse media such as performance, video, photography, installation and painting. Yan Xing has built a complex, compelling body of work that reflects critically on how history is manufactured today. The artist’s projects are often complex and conceptual with the body remaining central to all explorations. His works circulate around large themes such as negativity, resistance, and order, exploring their complex interrelations.
Yan Xing
Treatise on Ancient Design
2018
Vintage blown glass lamp, Travertine marble, Verde Alpi marble, Silkscreens with artist's frame
View of the exhibition at Magazzino, Rome
Yan Xing
Treatise on Ancient Design
2018
Vintage blown glass lamp, Travertine marble, Verde Alpi marble, Silkscreens with artist's frame
View of the exhibition at Magazzino, Rome
Yan Xing
Treatise on Ancient Design
2018
Vintage blown glass lamp, Travertine marble, Verde Alpi marble, Silkscreens with artist's frame
View of the exhibition at Magazzino, Rome
Yan Xing
Treatise on Ancient Design
2018
Vintage blown glass lamp, Travertine marble, Verde Alpi marble, Silkscreens with artist's frame
View of the exhibition at Magazzino, Rome
Yan Xing
Treatise on Ancient Design
2018
Vintage blown glass lamp, Travertine marble, Verde Alpi marble, Silkscreens with artist's frame
View of the exhibition at Magazzino, Rome
Yan Xing
Treatise on Ancient Design
2018
Custom cherry wood and Verde Alpi marble frames, plotter print and graphite on Arches cotton paper, encarving on wall
69 x 89 cm
Yan Xing
Treatise on Ancient Design
2018
Custom cherry wood and Verde Alpi marble frames, plotter print and graphite on Arches cotton paper, encarving on wall
Detail
Yan Xing
Across The River, Into The Trees
2016
Video
Duration 23′
Yan Xing
Across The River, Into The Trees
2016
Video
Duration 23′
Yan Xing
Across The River, Into The Trees
2016
Video
Duration 23′
Yan Xing
Across The River, Into The Trees
2016
Video
Duration 23′
Yan Xing
Across The River, Into The Trees
2016
Video
Duration 23′
Yan Xing
Tales from a Small New England Town
2016
Performance
Yan Xing
Tales from a Small New England Town
2016
Performance
Yan Xing
Tales from a Small New England Town
2016
Performance
Yan Xing
Tales from a Small New England Town
2016
Performance
Yan Xing
The Sweet Movie
2013
Performance
Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, Italy
Yan Xing
The Sweet Movie
2013
Performance
Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, Italy
Yan Xing
The Sweet Movie
2013
Performance
Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, Italy
Yan Xing
A Dangerous Afternoon
2017
Installation view at Kunsthalle Basel
Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel
Yan Xing
A Dangerous Afternoon
2017
Installation view at Kunsthalle Basel
Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel
Yan Xing
A Dangerous Afternoon
2017
Detail of the installation view at Kunsthalle Basel
Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel
Yan Xing
A Dangerous Afternoon
2017
Installation view at Kunsthalle Basel
Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel
Yan Xing
Daddy Project
2011
Performance
Installation view at Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing, China, 2011
Yan Xing
Daddy Project
2011
Performance
Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing, China, 2011