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中誠2016年秋季拍賣「亞洲現代與當代藝術」
CHOI YOUNGWOOK (b.1964)
2012
120x110cm
Estimate
TWD 450,000-900,000USD 14,400-28,800
HKD 0-0
Hammer Price
TWD 528,000USD 16,505
HKD 127,536
Choi Young Wook was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1964, he graduated from the Department of Painting at the Hongik University. Choi uses iconic porcelain vessel—Korean moon jar—as the only visual subject in his paintings, with emphasis on the expanding cracked glaze on the surface of the jar, as it demonstrates the delicate change that is caused by life and time; it becomes a collective memory shared by all. Choi even interprets the cracked glaze as a symbol of interconnected fates, and regard it as “karma.” The combination of modern painting expressions of the East and the West, in consequence has elevated the moon jar from correspondence to one single and specific “particular” instead it became an interpretation of a common “universe,” that gradually attracts international attention. His works are collected by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Exhibitions: 2012 “Karma—Choi Young Wook Solo Exhibition” (Art Issue Projects, Taipei, Taiwan), 2009 “Choi Young Wook Solo Exhibition” (Pearl Lam Gallery, New York, U.S.).