Galerie Urs Meile presents Yan Xing’s first solo exhibition (*1986 in Chongqing, China; lives and works in Beijing and Los Angeles) in Lucerne. Known as one of the emerging artists on the Chinese contemporary art scene, Yan Xing creates multilayered works using different media such as video, photography, installation and performance. The exhibition will show two of his recent projects, which refer to a variety of sources from art, history, politics, and literature. Yan Xing combines the different media, connecting ancient Greek sculpture with American photography from the 1960s, American painting from the 1940s, Chinese superstition, queer topics, and theoretical commentary. Despite the different inspirations and allusions, the end result is recognizably Yan Xing, who gives his complex and complicated subtexts a sleek appearance.

Image: © Yan Xing
Two Videos, three photographs, several related masterpieces, and American art
2013
Photograph (b/w), ultra giclée
136 x 170cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne