蓋達(dá)爾阿利耶夫中心舉辦了世界著名藝術(shù)家岳敏君個(gè)展，展出了“自畫像”和“花”兩個(gè)系列的 17 件作品。展覽由蓋達(dá)爾阿利耶夫中心和唐人當(dāng)代藝術(shù)館聯(lián)合舉辦。

岳敏君是中國當(dāng)代藝術(shù)最著名的代表人物，他于 1987 年首次展出自己的作品，并從 1990 年代初開始以“自畫像”系列作品在國際舞臺上亮相；這幅作品在平面和雕塑中都很常見。有些人認(rèn)為藝術(shù)家在自畫像中的大笑是戲謔的，而另一些人則認(rèn)為它戲劇化且悲傷。無論如何，這幅畫作讓任何人都無法無動(dòng)于衷。

岳敏君首次參加第 48 屆威尼斯雙年展是在 1997 年。  1999 年，他為中國藝術(shù)家在隨后的所有全球重要雙年展上亮相鋪平了道路。這在一定程度上表明了他不僅對中國藝術(shù)，而且對整個(gè)現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)界的影響。2007 年，《時(shí)代》雜志將他列入“2007 年重要人物”提名名單，并解釋了這一選擇：“如果我們這個(gè)時(shí)代的大問題是如何看待中國，那么他就是描繪中國的最佳人選。”

 藝術(shù)家著名的《花》系列作品探討了新冠疫情帶來的限制措施所帶來的后果。與不久前的真實(shí)生活形成鮮明對比的是，畫中人物的臉部沒有被醫(yī)用口罩遮住，而是被不同的花朵遮住。“我不否認(rèn)現(xiàn)實(shí)，我對現(xiàn)實(shí)持懷疑態(tài)度”，這是藝術(shù)家對當(dāng)時(shí)發(fā)生的事情的態(tài)度。

岳敏君的作品在不同國家舉辦了30多場個(gè)展。他的作品被收藏在世界上最著名的畫廊和博物館中：舊金山現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)博物館、丹佛藝術(shù)博物館、芝加哥建筑博物館、弗朗索瓦·密特朗文化中心、新加坡聯(lián)合大學(xué)藝術(shù)博物館、釜山美術(shù)館、廣東美術(shù)館和深圳美術(shù)館等。

岳敏君的個(gè)展《笑臉花園》將于2024年6月8日至10月27日在蓋達(dá)爾·阿利耶夫中心舉行。

“Garden of Grins" solo exhibition by Yue Minjun

 to be exhibited at the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan

The Heydar Aliyev Center has mounted a solo exhibition by the world-famous artist Yue Minjun, with 17 works of art on display from the two series, "Self-Portrait" and "Flowers". The exhibition is organized jointly by the Heydar Aliyev Center and the Tang Contemporary Art.

The best-known exponent of contemporary Chinese art, Yue Minjun first exhibited his works in 1987 and, from the early 1990s, announced his arrival as an artist on the international scene with his series, "Self-Portrait"; the image there so familiar now in both graphics and sculpture. Some believe the artist's smile in his self-portrait to be sly, while others see it as dramatic and sad. In any event, it is an image that leaves no one indifferent.

Yue Minjun’s first participation in the 48th edition of the Venice Biennale, in 1999, paved the way for Chinese artists to figure in all succeeding globally significant biennales. This is some indication of his influence, not only on Chinese art, but on the whole modern art world. In 2007, "Time" magazine included him in its nomination for "2007 People Who Mattered", explaining its choice thus: "If the big-picture question of our time is what to make of China, this is the man to paint it.”

The artist's famous "Flowers" series deals with the consequences of the restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast to real life in that not-so-distant past, the faces portrayed are not covered by medical masks, but by different flowers. "I don't deny reality, I am suspicious of it," is how the artist expresses his attitude to what happened then.

More than 30 solo exhibitions of Yue Minjun’s works have been held in different countries. His works are in the collections of the world’s most famous galleries and museums: the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Chicago Architecture Museum, the François Mitterrand Cultural Centre, Singapore’s Union University Art Museum, the Busan ??Art Museum, the Guangdong Museum of Art and the Shenzhen Art Museum, among others.

Yue Minjun's solo exhibition "Garden of Grins" can be seen at the Heydar Aliyev Center from 8 June to 27 October 2024.