Lot  178 Ravenel Autumn Auction 2010 Taipei

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2010 Taipei

Affection in the Forsaken City

LIEN Chien-hsing (Taiwanese, 1962)

2008

Oil on canvas

112 x 194 cm

Estimate

TWD 1,300,000-2,300,000

HKD 317,000-561,000

USD 43,300-76,700

Sold Price

TWD 1,200,000

HKD 306,905

USD 39,565


Signature

Signed lower left Lien Chien-hsing in Chinese and dated 2008

Titled on the reverse Affection in Forsaken City in Chinese, dated 2008 and signed Lien Chien-hsing in Chinese

EXHIBITED:


Madden Reality: Post-Taipei Art Group, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, January 21- April 5, 2009

ILLUSTRATED:


Madden Reality: Post-Taipei Art Group, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 2009, color illustrated, p. 108

+ OVERVIEW

When construing Lien Chien-hsing's works, we find the vivid, deluxe scenes, similar to 3D computer games, do not touch the core value of our hearts. What associates people to feeling first and most easily is his visual ironic to the "offense to nature" by human being and his critics towards material civilization. The real purpose of the series in the style "magic realistic painting" created by Lien Chien-hsing since the 1990s is to surpass the fences of technique, combine abrupt or abstruse images in routine sceneries with definite description, or add implied symbols and role play in highly realistic scenes, creating a psychological fortune different from real world but extremely rational. This way, more metaphoric humanistic meanings are extended to his works.

"The basic pictorial element of 'Affection in the Forsaken City' is 'ruins', which suggests an architectural space that was built for specific functions during a certain phase of human activity and that has gradually lost its functions over time. Forgotten or eulogized, turned into a fairytale or monument, and after being weathered for a period of time, it gives a sense of bleakness or sublimeness that has the effect of inspiring awe, evoking nostalgia, warning about the swift passage of time or mourning the disappearance of an industry." (Madden Reality: Post-Taipei Art Group, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 2009, p.106)

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Modern & Contemporary Asian Art

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2010 Taipei

Sunday, December 5, 2010, 2:30pm