Pan Dehai was born in 1956 in Si Ping City, Jilin Province, China. He graduated from the Fine Art Department of the Northeast Normal
University in Changchun, Jilin Province in 1982. Although Pang Dehai's paintings feature cherubic figures, they manage to elude the grim
label of "cute" art. Instead, the paintings exhibit a sinister humor brought about by the serial pixilation that serves
and paintings' building blocks. This repetitive pattern is often echoed in the composition itself. The inflated figures occupy the canvas
like some highly disciplined cloned army. Pang said "I want to focus on the subject of obesity, a common phenomenon in modern
society and a product of modernization. Obesity is the most obvious embodiment of the problems of urban living…… Obesity is aggressive and
possessive. It comes from increasing gluttony. Obesity is a most vivid and symbolic state."
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Pan Dehai |
