Lot 189
Platinum Fertile Soil
LIANG Ping-cheng (Taiwanese, 1958)
2008
Stainless steel, edition no. 2/6
184(L) x 88(W) x 46(H) cm
Estimate
TWD 450,000-500,000
HKD 107,000-119,000
USD 14,100-15,600
Sold Price
TWD 600,000
HKD 144,858
USD 18,593
Signature
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Born in Pingtung, Taiwan, in 1958, Liang Pin-cheng won the first Hsiung-shih New Artist Award in 1983, and graduated from the Western Painting Group at the Chinese Cultural University in 1985. Later, he went to the United States to study at New York University, and returned to Taiwan with impressionistic sculptures besides his paintings, using an improvisation performance. Liang Pin-cheng thinks that materials are the media through which the connotation of art can be revealed. "The outward appearance is usually false. The real thing lies within. We should seek to find a new possibility for sculpture under contemporary culture."
Liang Pin-cheng's works are unique. The stainless steel material renders the sculptures a balanced beauty and delicate and cold texture. The lines of the works are smooth and accurate, a good combination of ease and restraint. In the work "Platinum Fertile Soil", there is an extension of tension in stark contrast with the inside exquisiteness and plumpness of the sculptures. Liang pin-cheng got rid of the common practice of tradition and provided people impressions of inversion and sense of wonder through destruction and reconstruction. From the depiction of cutting to visual linear rhythm, the artist is adept in dealing with the art of ink and opens a new vision for sculpture with his conception of out-phase and variant.
Modern & Contemporary Asian Art
Ravenel Spring Auction 2010 Taipei
Sunday, June 6, 2010, 2:30pm