Lot 131
Unstable Connection-Breathing Cremains
YANG Ren-ming (Taiwanese, 1962)
2001
Acrylic and oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm
Estimate
TWD 340,000-380,000
HKD 80,200-89,700
USD 10,300-11,500
Sold Price
TWD 885,000
HKD 213,613
USD 27,429
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It has its difficulties to clearly interpret artist's own personal vocabularies which derived from his/her background, but maybe they're interpretable from the theme of a series of creations or the use of space, colors and symbols in the pictures. Taiwan was facing the most severe impact and change for the last 40 years in the early 90's: the ending of the martial law, opening for political parties and the media, the change of Taiwan and China's relationship, frequent street movements, and the rising of ecology topics, all of them effected and reconstructed the politic, economy, and culture, and many new artists during that time were cultivated under the change of environment and the invasion of foreign cultures. Under this kind of environment, Taiwan's art circle grown rapidly at the early 90's, and Yang Ren-ming was one of them.
Yang's creation can be divided into four stages: "New plants grown from Black water" from '92 to '93; "The way of living that new plants are thinking about" from '93 to '94; "The Big Circle" from '95 to '98; and "Unstable Connection" since '00.
"Unstable Connection" is about how semi-transparent geometries present themselves, how they continually think contemplate about their current states and how they are changing all the time. Yang mentioned: "Unstable Connection is about how things are keep changing during the whole painting process, keep fixing or repainting doesn't help anything, it has to be stopped at a certain point. And naturally, paintings are become an archive of a series of continual thoughts, and the final picture is the frozen state of it".
The 20th & 21st Century Chinese Art, Korean Contemporary Art
Ravenel Autumn Auction 2007
Sunday, December 2, 2007, 12:00am