Lot 144
Panacea Series - One's Pacifier is Another's Panacea - HERMÈS
DESIRE OBTAIN CHERISH (D.O.C) (American, 1975)
2014
Cast resin, treated fabric, acrylic edition no. 9/10
41(L) x 36(W) x 66(H) cm
Estimate
TWD 380,000-550,000
HKD 98,000-142,000
USD 12,600-18,300
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Desire Obtain Cherish: #YourKiddingRight, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, May 23-July 1, 2017
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D.O.C. as known as Jonathan Paul, he is an American artist living and creating in Los Angeles. In 2000, he became an instant hit with his focused in street art, and was widely seen in major art fairs acr oss America. In 2015, D.O.C.’s works were exposed at the Centurion Palace during the Venice Biennale. Afterwards, he was invited by the department store, Saks Fifth Avenue in New York to exhibit his most-known art installation series: Meltdown in shapes of lollipops.
Graduated from the famous Parsons School of Design in New York, D.O.C. integrates the concepts of pop-art, street art and conceptual art and implemented appropriation technic to reach beyond limitations of medium. Implying a sense of dark humor, the artist tries to discuss controversial issues like sex, medicine abuse, money and popularity to irony and to overturn audience’s value. People call D.O.C. as fine-art world’s hooligan, the artist not only uses his works to critic the common culture, but also his anonym to reveal an endless circle of needs, in particular: Desire, Obtain and Cherish in our modern society.
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Ravenel Autumn Auction 2017
Saturday, December 2, 2017, 2:30pm