Today marks the opening of Massimo De Carlo’s first Asian space. Located in Hong Kong’s Pedder Building, the gallery is inaugurated with a solo show by the Chinese artist, based in France, Yan Pei-Ming, with whom Massimo De Carlo has collaborated for almost 20 years, since 1998. Entitled ‘It Takes a Lifetime to Become Young’, the exhibition will run from 21 March – 22 May 2016. Massimo De Carlo gallery in Pedder Building, Hong Kong Massimo De Carlo gallery in Pedder Building, Hong Kong Yan Pei-Ming grew up during the Cultural Revolution in China and left Shanghai for France in 1980, where he studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Dijon. During the last 30 years he established himself as one of the most prominent artists, renowned for his impressive size portraits of key power figures from both the East and the West, from Mao Zedong and Barack Obama to Marylin Monroe and Alexander McQueen. “I am honoured to be a part of the Massimo De Carlo Hong Kong gallery opening. Massimo is a dear friend and has always been very supportive of my career. ‘It Takes a Lifetime to Become Young’ is a new body of [...]
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