Lot  173 Ravenel Spring Auction 2010 Taipei

Ravenel Spring Auction 2010 Taipei

Pretending Moonlight - Night Snack

YANG Ren-ming (Taiwanese, 1962)

2007

Oil on canvas

182 x 227 cm

Estimate

TWD 750,000-850,000

HKD 179,000-202,000

USD 23,400-26,600

Sold Price

TWD 960,000

HKD 231,772

USD 29,749


Signature

Titled on the reverse Pretending Moonlight - Night Snack in Chinese, media oil on canvas, dated 2007.06 and size 227 x 182 cm

+ OVERVIEW

"Pretending Moonlight Series" is the transcendence in integration and creation conceptions after Yang Ren-ming's "Unstable Ties Series" in the year 2000. "Pretending Moonlight Series" drew inspiration from the artist's midnight outdoor stroll in the open air when he saw the vast and exceedingly bright moonlight. Later, the artist began to scribble on paper his drawing inspiration to the accompaniment of heavy metal rock and alternative music either passionate or muttering. He then picked up the brush, committed himself to the theme and began to look for diversified possibilities for breakthrough. Yang Ren-ming said: "I like to seek from the seemingly similar pictures the unexpected results activated by creation and life experience." This idea has been present both in his early "New Vegetation from Black Water Series" (1992), the previous "Unstable Ties Series" (2000) and works of today.

On the one hand, the artwork "Pretending Moonlight - Night Snack" appears more obscure and veiled. On the other hand, it also provides audiences with clues to look into the painting and feel the drawing language's differences of the contradiction, or, the contradiction of the differences. Therefore one can understand the saying that "No writing wants to be withheld from the public." All want to make public appearance without being too intruding.

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Modern & Contemporary Asian Art

Ravenel Spring Auction 2010 Taipei

Sunday, June 6, 2010, 2:30pm