Lot  058 Ravenel Autumn Auction 2020

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2020

Golden Winds Pharao

Thierry FEUZ (Swiss, 1968)

2020

Lacquer, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas

210 x 170 cm

Estimate

TWD 850,000-1,300,000

HKD 226,000-346,000

USD 29,100-44,600

CNY 200,000-306,000

Sold Price

TWD 1,080,000

HKD 293,478

USD 37,895

CNY 247,140


Signature

Signed reverse Thierry Feuz, dated 2020 and titled Golden Winds Pharao

+ OVERVIEW

Thierry Feuz was born in 1968 in Switzerland. He graduated with a Master’s degree from the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design in Geneva, and currently lives and works in Geneva. Art, science and philosophy meet in his art world. He is concerned about the significance of the “existence” of all the humankind around the world. His works have been included in institutional collections of the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, the Singapore Art Foundation, America’s Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprise, and the United Bank of Switzerland (UBS).

Some clues to Feuz’s creative elements can be seen in the delicate still life paintings of Spain’s Baroque period, the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, the surrealism of Joan Miró, and Cy Twombly’s classical mythology. Feuz places concrete objects between the real and the imagined and creates a kind of painting that defies definition. Everything is as in the primordial state of The Garden of Earthly Delights by the 16th century Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch, a microcosmic universe of riotous colors. Walking step by step into this seductive landscape contains moments within it about magical transformation of each life.

Under the superlative sensuality and appealing appearance, exists a danger of fragility and also a sliding into debauchery. Feuz’s work easily spans the boundaries of culture and abstraction. These calyces and microbes spread outwards in a space without boundaries and full of contradiction. Here, astounding beauty and fragility coexist, with the implied suggestion that such a beautiful balance can be destroyed in an instant. Like the condition of a mayfly described in the Classic of Poetry, which is born in the morning and dies at night, life is so brief that it has to be lived in brilliant splendor. Through fabricated scenery, rich colors, and the rhythm of life, Thierry Feuz explores life and the meaning of human existence through his painting. In absence of boundaries and delineated realms, the significance of life and death advance eternally in parallel.
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Ravenel Autumn Auction 2020

Saturday, December 5, 2020, 3:30pm