Lot 173
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
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"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.
Modern & Contemporary Asian Art
Ravenel Spring Auction 2010 Taipei
Sunday, June 6, 2010, 2:30pm