CHI FEI.

FEI, Chen: ZHENG, Shi (editor).

ISBN 10: 3954761076 / ISBN 13: 9783954761074

Editore: Distanz, Berlin, 2016., 2015

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4to, 118pp, colour and black and white illustrations (some fold out). A very good hardback copy.

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• Titolo: CHI FEI.
• Editore: Distanz, Berlin, 2016.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3954761076
• ISBN 13: 9783954761074
• Rilegatura: Rilegato

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The work of Chen Fei (b. Shanxi, China, 1983; lives and works in Beijing)is part of a new trend in contemporary Chinese art that represents a clearthematic as well as aesthetic departure from the avantgarde art of the 1980sand 1990s. His pictures evince the unconscious influence of the manymovieshe has seen since he was a child masterworks and cult classicsas well as B movies. He actually enrolled at the Beijing Film Academy; a seriesof paintings shows 202 villains, with their characteristic costumes andaccessories,from 197 movies ranging from "Clockwork Orange" to "Ichithe Killer," from "The Shining" to "Kill Bill," from "Hard Candy" to "Bride ofChucky." The same morbid sense of humor is evident in Chen s more recentpaintings. His brush transmutes scenes of human anatomy or death intoharmless jokes. What truly impresses him, Chen Fei says, are the rogues, notthe upstanding citizens, and the same goes for painting: beauty and goodhealth leave him bored.

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The work of Chen Fei (b. Shanxi, 1983; lives and works in Beijing) is part of a new trend in contemporary Chinese art that represents a clear thematic as well as aesthetic departure from the avant-garde art of the 1980s and 1990s. His pictures evince the unconscious influence of the many movies he has seen since he was a child-masterworks and cult classics as well as B movies. A onetime student at the Beijing Film Academy, he created portraits of 202 villains, complete with their characteristic costumes and accessories, from 197 movies ranging from "A Clockwork Orange" to "Ichi the Killer," from "The Shining" to "Kill Bill," from "Hard Candy" to "Bride of Chucky"; the tableau, titled "To Remember Our Comrades By" (2008), makes a spectacular appearance in the book in the form of a six-page panorama foldout. He also wrote a book, "Biographies of the World Movie Villains," in which he describes these evil and bloodthirsty characters with artless sarcasm, as though he were inventorying his family's valuable possessions.

The same morbid sense of humor is evident in Chen's more recent paintings. His brush transmutes scenes of human anatomy or death into harmless jokes. What truly impresses him, Chen Fei says, are the rogues, not the upstanding citizens, and the same goes for painting: beauty and good health leave him bored.