Lot  271 Ravenel Autumn Auction 2008 Taipei

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2008 Taipei

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

Titled on the reverse Pork Belly Series-Flesh Landscape in Chinese, dated 2006, signed Chang Ling in Chinese

+ OVERVIEW

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."

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Ravenel Autumn Auction 2008 Taipei

Sunday, December 7, 2008, 12:00am