'Floating paintings' light up UCCA

Landscape of Childhood is a new series of paintings by Yan Peiming, presented by UCCA in the 798 Art Zone. Following his Les Funrailles de Monna Lisa exhibition held at the Muse du Louvre in Feburary, this exhibition is Yan's first attempt to host a show with installations instead of canvases.

Thirty-four flags, arranged in rows, are attached to poles hanging upside down from the ceiling of the exhibition hall. These transparent-painted flags are visible from either side, creating a splendid silver scene.

These "floating paintings" is an original concept from Yan, and has portraits of sick children and orphans painted on the flags. Roaring winds produced by air-blowers make the flags billow and the images symbolically present the fate of these unfortunate children.