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YUE MINJUN
Born 1962 in Daqing, Heilongjiang Province, China
Studied in the Oil Painting Department of Hebei Normal University
Lives and works in Beijing

Yue Minjun is one of the key figures of the Chinese avant-garde, foremost as a painter of the Cynical Realism movement, which emerged out of the disillusionment after the crushed demonstrations of 1989. Flexible Latitude (2010) is a huge Yue Minjun figure in the posture of the classical kowtow: kneeling and bowing so low that one's head touches the ground, the highest sign of reverence and submission, may it be for one's elderly ancestors, superiors or the emperor. Here we are confronted with a physical giant, but yet he is shown in a pose of lackeying and bootlicking, seemingly an image of making a fool of oneself.

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