Mazzy Star, 2018
Yun Yongye, born in 1990, Hainan, China. He lives and works in Wuhan.
Yun Yongye is a miniaturist, yet his works are by no means the experience of an enclosed, minimalist object of reduced dimensions. On the contrary, Yun Yongye creates meticulously detailed pencil works on paper within a precise, often round, frame. Like a window onto another world, his works don't condense, they develop; they don't enclose, they open.
By pushing our gaze into a new dimension where order and gravity have no place, Yun Yongye hypnotizes our senses. The elements visible in these doors of the imagination often play with ambiguous or explicit themes such as eroticism or desire, antiquity and sexuality.
Yun Yongye's representations often play with the boundaries of surrealism, but always with a concern for representing details as realistically as possible. Our minds are thus thwarted, and driven to the desire to destructure these perfect forms themselves and use this surrealist setting to perpetuate reverie.
His work has been the subject of a solo presentation at RS_PROJECTS Wuhan and group exhibitions at Tong Gallery Beijing, Fine Arts Literature Art Center Wuhan and White House Gallery Wuhan.