Hibiscus by Yue Minjun Explore Mondoir Collection Medium: Archival pigment print on Innova paper Dimensions: 91 x 69 cm Edition production year: 2021 Edition of 40 Price on request Status: available Why collect this work?Hibiscus replaces facial recognition with three competing signs: a covered head, an enlarged flower and an emphatic grin, making identity appear deliberately assembled. Opera Gallery describes Yue Minjun as a painter, sculptor and printmaker known for depicting himself with a trademark smile. In this work, that familiar grin remains legible even as the face disappears. (Yue Minjun - Opera Gallery (opens in a new tab))The supplied photograph shows a half-length figure holding a pale, long-bodied animal. Careful costume details suggest formal portraiture, but the flower blocks the eyes while the isolated mouth turns expression into a mask.Catalogued as a 2021 archival pigment print on Innova paper, the image sets saturated clothing and flower against a nearly black ground. Crisp boundaries reinforce the sense of components being spliced together.At 91 by 69 cm, the print approaches the scale of a person’s upper body. Among portraits, it can sharpen attention to how pose, costume and repeated motifs construct identity without revealing a face. About the ArtistYue Minjun Yue Minjun is an artist featured in the Mondoir Collection. Nationality: Chinese
