{"id":8484,"date":"2019-12-20T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8484"},"modified":"2019-12-20T13:59:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:59:55","slug":"chen-fei-at-galerie-perrotin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/20\/chen-fei-at-galerie-perrotin\/","title":{"rendered":"Chen Fei at Galerie Perrotin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing-based artist Chen Fei channels Dutch still life in his painting of tempting foodstuffs but substitutes dumplings for bread and banana leaf wraps for grapes.\u00a0 He cites Renaissance historian Vasari to question whether still life can be as engaging as portraiture, forcing the issue by presenting figurative painting in the downstairs gallery and still life upstairs.\u00a0 While the large-scale nude characters downstairs steal the show with their unconventional personalities, the still lifes still wow with their sheer abundance.\u00a0 (On view at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perrotin.com\/exhibitions\/fei_chen-reunion\/6902\">Perrotin<\/a> on the Lower East Side through Dec 21<sup>st<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8485\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8485\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8485\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8485\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/chen_fei.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/chen_fei.jpg 3249w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/chen_fei-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/chen_fei-500x372.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chen Fei, detail from Painting of Harmony, acrylic, gold and silver foil on linen mounted on board, 39 3\/8 x 78 \u00be inches.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing-based artist Chen Fei channels Dutch still life in his painting of tempting foodstuffs but substitutes dumplings for bread and banana leaf wraps for grapes.\u00a0 He cites Renaissance historian Vasari to question whether still life can be as engaging as portraiture, forcing the issue by presenting figurative painting in the downstairs gallery and still life &hellip; 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