Lot 15
Lover's Library
HUANG Chih-yang (Taiwanese, 1965)
1999
Ink on silk paper mounted onto board
243 x 122 cm
Estimate
TWD 620,000-800,000
HKD 159,000-205,100
USD 21,400-27,600
Sold Price
TWD 649,000
HKD 166,581
USD 21,345
Signature
With one seal of the artist
Lover’s Library, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, 1999
Lover’s Library, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, 2000
Lover’s Library, Hanart TZ Gallery, Taipei, 2001
ILLUSTRATED:
Modern Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 2004 April
Lover’s Library, Taipei Hanart Gallery, Taipei, 2005
+ OVERVIEW
Huang Chih-yang has been continually creating a series of original "theme spare parts" in plants' forms since 1988. Through exaggerate, magnifying, characterized transform measures, he transformed the lines, shapes and cracks of plants into semi-abstract brush strokes and images. He treated these image prototypes as spare parts, as cells, make them divided, duplicated, and recreated. This kind of reproduction eventually evolves to a mutated organic life form. And by transforming natural images into art is Huang's basic creation approach. The participation in "Venice Biennial", 1995 and exhibition in Ludwig Museum, Germany, 1996 made Huang even more aware of the source and tradition of his own creations.
"Lover's Library" is finished via water ink techniques on silk papers, as the artist realized water ink art in an irreplaceable core in Chinese art traditions, the aesthetic this kind of art pursues is how an detailed or free and easy feeling of time and trails realized through inks spat on the papers. In order to present "Discourse", he'd chosen two models to redefine men's existence, the value and spirit of culture, given them a ritualized respect. Unlike his previous series, images were created based on concept and topics, not based on the characteristic of each individual image.
The 20th & 21st Century Chinese Art Japanese & Korean Contemporary Art
Ravenel Spring Auction 2008
Sunday, June 1, 2008, 12:00am