Tickets to Yan Pei-Ming: Painting Histories Exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi

Experience Yan Pei-Ming's Fierce Style at Palazzo Strozzi

Art lovers, assemble here! Palazzo Strozzi is offering an incredible opportunity to see over 30 artworks of one of the greatest French-Chinese artists, Yan Pei-Ming. Titled Painting Histories, the temporary exhibition will showcase the contemporary artist’s work, which creatively blends individual experiences, historical events, and cultural symbols from both East and West.

What to Expect from Yan Pei-Ming's Artworks

His art invites viewers to reconsider the intricate relationship between memory and reality and history and modern times. The diverse subjects take inspiration from personal photographs, newspaper covers, and famous paintings by legendary artists. What also makes his work striking is that he uses canvases of monumental dimensions characterized by sweeping brush strokes. Besides depictions of still lives and landscapes, his works also boats of intimate portraits of prominent figures like Bruce Lee, Mao Zedong, and Vladimir Putin. At the exhibition, marvel at these works and other masterpieces such as original reinterpretations of Leonardo's Mona Lisa and Velázquez's Innocent X.