Yun-Fei Ji: The Empty City

by Yun-Fei Ji, Melissa Chiu, Tan Lin

From a distance, Yun-Fei Ji's traditional brush paintings hark back to the atmospheric landscapes of the Sung Dynasty painters. Step closer though, and Ji's mists are revealed to be toxic clouds, and his craggy mountains are shown to be piles of overflowing garbage and abandoned vehicles. His misty imagery also includes stylized abstractions that may or may not refer to intestines, explosions or bubbling slime. Using traditional materials (inks, Chinese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971219532
• ISBN13: 9780971219533
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.8" x 9.5"