Lot  131 Ravenel Autumn Auction 2007

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2007

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


Signature

Titled on the reverse Breathing Cremains in Chinese, dated 2001 and size 100x80 cm Acrylic, oil, canvas and signed Yang Ren-ming in Chinese

+ OVERVIEW

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".

Related Info

The 20th & 21st Century Chinese Art, Korean Contemporary Art

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2007

Sunday, December 2, 2007, 12:00am