Lot  137 Ravenel Autumn Auction 2007

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2007

My Box

HUANG Gang (Chinese, 1961)

2006

Mixed media on board

122 x 244 cm

Estimate

TWD 880,000-1,500,000

HKD 207,700-354,000

USD 26,600-45,400

Sold Price

TWD 3,422,000

HKD 825,972

USD 106,059


Signature

Signed lower right Huang Gang in Chinese and English, dated 2006

+ OVERVIEW

Since 1980' , Huang Gang began to research the social, religious and philosophical background producing Tibetan arts. Later, he has created the series of works with his own artistic mode, unprecedented and different from other artists. His paintings are always beyond the plane visual hierarchy and have a strong sense of massiveness. The materials he chooses are special so that lacquer and color are mixed up to paint again and again so as to get a gentle and implicative effect. Using the traditional Tibetan woodcarving sutra and handcopied sutra as the materials, he sets them into paintings to present some religious composition forms in Tibetan tradition, (such as stramonium). Together with idealist hues in Tibetan paintings, such as noble black, pure white, sovereign golden and vital red, he organizes and stacks them, in a religious piety and extremely simple style, into his paintings, with a skill just like "repetition"skill in pop arts.

"My Box" depicts the scene the sun and the moon appears simultaneously on the horizon, just like an old suitcase floating in the sky, against the background of the splendid snow mountain, representing elapsing of a warm family and years. The works, simple and forthright, free and elegant and full of strength, shows novelly and profoundly an orient spirit; in a simple composition of picture and layout, a strong visual tension and spiritual power spreading out unconsciously, ushering people into a excursion in spirit. The artist has integrated the ancient Tibetan arts into current daily life and created a touch with modern device, and with a mobile brushwork and warm hues, expressing a strong humanistic concern with romantic emotions.

Related Info

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

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2007

Sunday, December 2, 2007, 12:00am