This summer at Palazzo Strozzi the largest exhibition ever dedicated in Italy to Yan Pei-Ming

From July 7 to September 3, 2023, Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will host Yan Pei-Ming, Painter of Stories, the largest exhibition ever dedicated in Italy to the French-Chinese artist, part of the Palazzo Strozzi Future Art project developed with the Hillary Merkus Recordati Foundation.

Curated by Arturo Galansino, director general of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, the exhibition will offer an itinerary of more than 30 works that will give the opportunity to explore the artist’s powerful and original research on the relationship between image and reality, in a short circuit between personal life and collective history, symbols and icons of culture and art history between East and West.

Renowned for a profound and passionate reflection on painting in today’s art, the artist invites us to rethink the relationship between history and contemporaneity, memory and the present. Exploring genres such as portraiture, landscape, still life and history painting, his paintings come to life from the model of photographic images drawn from diverse sources, such as personal images, newspaper covers, film stills or famous works from art history.

Yan Pei-Ming leads the audience to reflect on the contradiction between reality and representation, truth and the construction of images, an increasingly central theme in the age of digital reproduction and sharing of public history and our private lives.

The exhibition is promoted and organized by the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence as part of the Palazzo Strozzi Future Art project developed with the Hillary Merkus Recordati Foundation. Main supporter: Fondazione CR Firenze. Supporters: City of Florence, Tuscany Region, Florence Chamber of Commerce, Intesa Sanpaolo, Palazzo Strozzi Partners Committee. With the contribution of Città Metropolitana di Firenze. Thanks to MASSIMODECARLO and Galerie Thaddeus Ropac.

Image: Yan Pei-Ming, Les Funérailles de Monna Lisa (Canvas no. 3), detail (2009-2018). Photo by André Morin © Yan Pei-Ming, ADAGP, Paris, 2023

This summer at Palazzo Strozzi the largest exhibition ever dedicated in Italy to Yan Pei-Ming

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