Lot  277 Ravenel Spring Auction 2018

Ravenel Spring Auction 2018

Pork Belly Series – Waterside – Flower Figure

Chang-Ling (Taiwanese, 1975)

2017

Oil on canvas

146 x 70 cm

Estimate

TWD 240,000-320,000

HKD 65,000-86,000

USD 8,300-11,000

CNY 52,000-69,000

Sold Price

TWD 384,000

HKD 101,053

USD 12,869


Signature

Signed lower right Chang Ling in Chinese and dated 2017
Signed on the reverse Chang Ling, titled Pork Belly Series – Waterside– Flower Figure in Chinese, dated 2017

This painting is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity issued by In Sian Gallery

+ OVERVIEW

Chang-Ling is an artist with full of artistic soul. His studies brought him to France in 1996, and there he quickly latched on to new movements in contemporary art. And 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.

“Pork Belly Series — Meaty Landscape” incorporates deposits from the shores of Chang-Ling’s mind and the artist’s innovative approach to painting, along with advancements in broader Eastern thought. The combination creates a fantasy landscape of a distinctly Chang- Ling-style aesthetic. We see in the work piles of meat in mountains of different pinks and demonstrating the artist’s technical prowess with the brush, a strip of road appears like a wisp of cloud or mist and is as emotive as the sea. At a time when the technology of human civilisation brings about new changes each day The meaty landscape is not a representation of traditional landscape painting, it is a work that means to be a call for the conservation of the earth and present environment.

A groundbreaking work by Chang-Ling, “Waterside – Flower Figure” not only alludes to the unforeseen wonder and allegories of ancient mythology, it also contains in its composition a certain textural dimension and aesthetic from the expansive landscapes of classical Chinese painting and calligraphy. A large space on the canvas is left blank as if to impart on viewers the notion that Chang- Ling's painting presents a landscape of contemporary times.

Related Info

Modern & Contemporary Asian Art

Ravenel Spring Auction 2018

Sunday, June 3, 2018, 2:00pm