Lot  49 Ravenel Spring Auction 2012 Hong Kong

Ravenel Spring Auction 2012 Hong Kong

Beijing My Home

HUANG Gang (Chinese, 1961)

2008

Mixed media on board

150 x 150 cm

Estimate

TWD 1,540,000-2,310,000

HKD 400,000-600,000

USD 51,000-76,400

Sold Price

TWD 1,569,231

HKD 408,000

USD 52,577


Signature

Signed lower right Huang Gang in Chinese and English

+ OVERVIEW

In the recent series of Huang Gang's works, he combineds ancient New Year woodblock prints with political images. Among the combination, an essential union is linked and expresses a broken variation. It is a kind of art enrichment. He has collected many traditional New Year woodblock prints and collaged them into the background of paintings. It is like putting fashionable visual images or pentacle star of the Cultural Revolution into paintings and representing the following points: (a) a connection between various mass cultures in order to establish a historical narration; (b) respect from the artist - he said several times that when mocking traditional culture, its value also has to be respected. Traditional culture is part of the resources and motivation of future cultural development; (c) traditional visual images are revealed in a modern interpretation based on respecting traditional cultural resources. Because of this concept, I know his serious creative attitude is supported by elegant visual forms. (text by Sheng Wei)

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Ravenel Spring Auction 2012 Hong Kong

Monday, May 28, 2012, 11:30am