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CHEN FEI GEBUNDEN

I Like to Paint Bad Taste. Chen FeiThe work of Chen Fei (b. Shanxi  1983  lives and works in
Beijing) is part of a new trend in contemporary Chinese art that represents a clear thematic as
well as aesthetic departure from the avant-garde art of the 1980s and 1990s. His pictures
evince the unconscious influence of the many movies he has seen since he was a
child-masterworks and cult classics as well as B movies. A onetime student at the Beijing Film
Academy  he created portraits of 202 villains  complete with their characteristic costumes and
accessories  from 197 movies ranging from A Clockwork Orange to Ichi the Killer  from The
Shining to Kill Bill  from Hard Candy to Bride of Chucky  the tableau  titled To Remember Our
Comrades By (2008)  makes a spectacular appearance in the book in the form of a six-page
panorama foldout. He also wrote a book  Biographies of the World Movie Villains  in which he
describes these evil and bloodthirsty characters with artless sarcasm  as though he were
inventorying his family's valuable possessions.The same morbid sense of humor is evident in
Chen's more recent paintings. His brush transmutes scenes of human anatomy or death into
harmless jokes. What truly impresses him  Chen Fei says  are the rogues  not the upstanding
citizens  and the same goes for painting: beauty and good health leave him bored.With an essay
by Sun Dongdong.

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