You Jin

1979 Born: October 1979 in Shenyang, ChinaBeautiful Danger: You Jins Contemporary Apocalypse Yin Shuangxi The young artist You Jin has built us an entirely new world with his art. Though majored in designing at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, this young man has a strong passion for hand painting. He is fairly skilled in such image-generating devices as computer and digital image, while retaining the enthusiasm in traditional hand painting and humanity. By no means a veteran in contemporary art scene, he has established his own distinctive style of creation and means of expression, besides opening up a world, which is both history-based and future-oriented, both familiar and novel. In short, You Jins art describes the beautiful image of our time, and the potential danger beneath the beautiful image. In his paintings, highly sensitive awareness of eventualities is subtly embodied in the splendid imagesthe uncertainty of history is reflected through hilarious excitement, invaluable and everlasting nature coexist with war and violence peculiar to human world, laborious creation was accompanied by instantaneous destruction. I am indeed particularly amazed at the fact that amid the sensation of consumption, which is common to the artists ...