Lot  242 Ravenel Autumn Auction 2008 Taipei

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2008 Taipei

Subconsciousness

YANG Chihung (Taiwanese, 1947)

2007

Oil on canvas

152 x 198 cm

Estimate

TWD 1,200,000-1,800,000

HKD 293,000-439,000

USD 37,500-56,300

Sold Price

TWD 1,180,000

HKD 272,517

USD 35,182


Signature

Titled on the reverse Subconsciousness in English, signed Chihung Yang in English and dated 2007

EXHIBITED:


Inner Vision Human Condition-Chihung Yang Solo Exhibition, National Art Museum of China Beijing, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, Oct. 16-23, 2007

ILLUSTRATED:


Inner Vision Human Condition-Chihung Yang Solo Exhibition, National Art Museum of China Beijing, Asia Art Center, Taipei, 2007, color illustrated, pp. 152-153

+ OVERVIEW

The work entitled "Subconsciousness" was painted in 2007, simply in beige and dim gray. With the least colors, the painting appears to be extremely limpid. The composition and colors indistinctly present the beauty of a void. The forceful contrast of light and shade as well as the mesh of lines and blocks creates an indistinct atmosphere. The artist elaborates the limpidity of ink wash painting, makes use of the properties of oil paint that drips, and portrays the intangible "sub-consciousness" in a symbolic way instead of with substantial contours. Based on the understanding of space, Yang's poetic scenery leads viewers' sights moved with the colors and their memories revealed. The bemazed sub-consciousness wafts in an abstract space freely and it creates a kind of visual effect that being empty in beat and abstract in concreteness can be felt. It is rational but romantic, delicate but wild.

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Ravenel Autumn Auction 2008 Taipei

Sunday, December 7, 2008, 12:00am