Yang Shaobin

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Yang Shaobin ( Chinese  杨少斌 ; * 1963 in Tangshan , Hebei Province ) is a Chinese artist.

At the age of 29 he moved to Yuanmingyuan near Beijing (near the Old Summer Palace ), which is known as the “artist village” and was henceforth one of the forerunners of so-called cynical realism . At least since he represented his country in 1999 at the first Venice Biennale , directed by the legendary curator Harald Szeemann , with a series of portraits in red , he has also been counted among the top group of contemporary Asian painters in Europe. His work is characterized by a very wide range of styles. So he approaches z. B. in his pictures taken after 2001, the traditional Chinese ink painting and surprised in 2006 with a series of pictures that thematize the life and work of Chinese miners .

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Yang is the family name here, Shaobin is the first name.