Lot 271
Pork Belly Series-Flesh Landscape
Chang-Ling (Taiwanese, 1975)
2006
Oil on canvas
145 x 195 cm
Estimate
TWD 260,000-300,000
HKD 63,000-73,000
USD 8,100-9,400
Sold Price
TWD 649,000
HKD 149,885
USD 19,350
Signature
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Chang-Ling said: "Art is not only about expressing my emotions, to me, flesh represents art."
Flesh Landscape is the wildest dream in the "Pork Belly" series, it is the next chapter after Kuafu fell and turned into mythology, Chang-Ling's Flesh Landscape extends the madness of Kuafu's chase for the sun in eastern culture, turning Kuafu's corpse into his concept of the land. While men develop technology and science, looking back into the past and examining our excessive exploitation of nature.
Flesh Landscape inherited the unique style from the "Pork Belly" series; Chang- Ling piled up meats and turned them into mountains in different shades of pink, colors in the picture loat like blood and waterfalls, they are so vibrant that they heavily stimulate our senses, what hides behind tender and sweetness is veiled violence. In the work "Flesh Lanscape", the grand momentum of streams lie within red and pink mountains, streams are like the artist's unrestful heart, and the flesh is not a recreation from traditional landscape, it is a direct attention to nature. Chang-Ling said: "Water and mountains, nature, has already been deprived by human desires, what I do is simply to present what's left now in reality."
The 20th & 21st Century Chinese Art, Japanese & Korean Contemporary Art
Ravenel Autumn Auction 2008 Taipei
Sunday, December 7, 2008, 12:00am