250 x 360 cm
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Fang Lijun – the pioneer of the ‘Cynical Realist’ movement, started working on a series of “Bald Heads" in the late 1980s and these figures remain the ageless motif in his work.
“The ‘bald head’ portrait in my imagery has taken on a tenor of ambiguity: a soldier, a criminal, a great or an evil person… the individuality disappears in a group. This paradigm resonates with me quite strongly: the idea that an individual person’s feeling of being omitted and ignored in society is especially strong in our culture.” – Fang Lijun
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