{"product_id":"yue-minjun-untitled-smile-ism-no-13-2006","title":"Yue Minjun – Untitled (Smile-ism No. 13) 2006","description":"\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eUntitled (Smile-ism No. 13) 2006\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yue Minjun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Untitled (Smile-ism No. 13)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lithograph in colours\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 110 × 90 cm (43 1\/4 × 35 1\/4 in)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e 45 — signed and numbered lower edge \"\/45 Yue Minjun\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrinter:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hankuk Art Chain Co., Ltd., Gwangju City, Korea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Art Issue Editions, New York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eType:\u003c\/strong\u003e Large-format limited edition lithograph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eUntitled (Smile-ism No. 13)\u003c\/em\u003e (2006) is a monumental large-format lithograph from one of the most internationally celebrated Chinese artists of the post-Tiananmen generation — a work that distils Yue Minjun's signature visual obsession into a composition of unsettling chromatic density and psychological complexity. A crowd of identical laughing faces — the artist's own, repeated and multiplied into an undifferentiated mass — press together in a cascade from the upper right to the lower left, their wide-open mouths and closed eyes forming a pattern simultaneously festive and grotesque, joyful and suffocating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eYue Minjun's grinning self-portrait figure — developed in the early 1990s in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre — is one of the most recognisable images in contemporary Chinese art and one of the most philosophically loaded. The laugh is not a laugh of happiness: it is a laugh of uncertainty, of helplessness, of the complex emotional state of living through historical upheaval with no adequate response available. Yue has described the smile as a mask — the face one puts on when there is nothing else to put on, when laughter is the only remaining gesture available to someone who cannot cry, cannot speak, cannot act. Repeated across the picture plane in \u003cem\u003eSmile-ism No. 13\u003c\/em\u003e, the individual mask becomes collective: a crowd that is also a single consciousness, a multiplicity that is also an erasure of individuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe pink flesh tones — warm, almost tender — rendered in the full colour lithography process give the faces a physical proximity that the subject matter refuses to make comfortable. The white space of the left margin provides the only relief from the press of identical smiling heads: a necessary breath, a gap between the image and the world it cannot quite fill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePrinted by Hankuk Art Chain Co., Ltd., Gwangju City — a specialist fine art printing house — and published by Art Issue Editions, New York, in an edition of just 45. At 110 × 90 cm, this is a large-format work of significant physical and institutional presence. Yue Minjun's paintings have achieved eight-figure results at auction, and his prints in editions of this size are among the most actively collected works in the contemporary Chinese art market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping \u0026amp; Delivery:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e✔ Worldwide shipping from France\u003cbr\u003e✔ Professional packaging with insurance\u003cbr\u003e✔ Tracking number included for secure delivery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mb-2 whitespace-pre-line last:mb-0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"S1PPyQ\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/lynartstore.com\/collections\/yue-minjun?_pos=1\u0026amp;_psq=Yue\u0026amp;_ss=e\u0026amp;_v=1.0\" title=\"Collection Yue Minjun\"\u003e➡️ See all available works by Yue Minjun\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/lynartstore.com\/pages\/contact-us\" title=\"Contact\"\u003e➡️ Contact us for any question\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mb-2 whitespace-pre-line last:mb-0\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFAQ\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs this an original Yue Minjun lithograph?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYes — an original lithograph in colours, signed and numbered by the artist lower edge \"\/45 Yue Minjun\", from an edition of 45.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is the edition size?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStrictly limited to 45 impressions — one of the smallest editions in Yue Minjun's print catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is Smile-ism?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSmile-ism\u003c\/em\u003e is one of Yue Minjun's most celebrated series, in which his signature laughing self-portrait figure is multiplied and arranged into crowd compositions — exploring themes of collective identity, historical trauma, and the social function of enforced cheerfulness in contemporary Chinese society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is the significance of the laughing face?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYue Minjun developed his signature grinning self-portrait in the early 1990s as a response to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre — the laugh functioning as a mask of uncertainty and helplessness, the only available gesture when more direct responses are impossible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho published this work?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArt Issue Editions, New York — a specialist publisher of limited edition prints by leading contemporary Asian artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDo you ship internationally?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYes — worldwide, with museum-grade flat packaging for large-format works on paper, full insurance, and shipment tracking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yue Minjun","offers":[{"title":"110 × 90 cm","offer_id":54770657231194,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0243\/8699\/4210\/files\/YUEMINJUN_Untitled_Smile-ismNo.13.png?v=1789118042","url":"https:\/\/lynartstore.com\/fr\/products\/yue-minjun-untitled-smile-ism-no-13-2006","provider":"LYNART STORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}