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Ravenel Spring Auction 2019 Taipei
Ravenel Spring Auction 2019 Taipei
Pork Belly Series - Flesh, Flowers and Birds - Flesh, Flowers and Birds - Orioles' Wait
Chang-Ling
(Taiwanese, 1975)
Signature
Signed on the reverse Chang- Ling in Chinese , titled Pork Belly Series - Flesh, Flowers and Birds - Flesh, Flowers and Birds - Orioles' Wait and dated 2009
+ OVERVIEW
Chang Ling's studies brought him to France in 1996, and there he quickly latched on to new movements in contemporary art. Since returning to Taiwan in 2005, he has not let go of his intellectual pursuit and exploration of creative freedom and subjectivity in contemporary Taiwanese culture. In his perspective of this memory, which reflects the artist's self, is also part of the unique creative style of his motherland, which brings his practice back to its original inspiration: Nature.
Flesh Flowers and Birds is the baby of Pork Belly Series after the creation of Flesh Landscape. They are the bizarre alien creatures or jumping or hibernating in the widest expanse of the world, perhaps by the side of the bloody red streamlets, perhaps by the side of the flowing fleshy stream, gossiping monkeys, weeping birds after rainfall, bright blossoms of the twisted and deformed vegetation and the straight heaven pointing bone bamboos or the tree-like branches of the forest of nerves.
Flesh Flowers and Birds is not only the beginning of life of ChangLing's massive world of flesh but also a satirical comment on man's wild fantasy of producing creatures like god and the strong desire to control creatures in the evolving under new technology. Darwin's theory of Evolution is based on the three basic concepts of species, adaption and evolution. These are the related theories of survival of the fittest, heredity and variation, excess reproduction and struggle for existence have all contributed to the field of evolutionary biology. In Chang-Ling's Flesh World, variation isn't actually directly caused by the artist, but rather is unintentional; organisms are placed in a new environment, and then nature aco upon them to create variations. People can utilize new technology variations provided by nature, and in this way manipulate the organism as it progresses through its marvelous evolutionary journey. This can satisfy our desire to catch a glimpse of life's origins. Flesh Flowers and Birds are in praise of the deformed biological chain and also a wizard of lust and desires in Chang-Ling's intrinsic heart.