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中誠2024年春季拍賣「現代與當代藝術」
SHI JINHUA ( 1964-2024 )
2019
Artwork: 74 x 141.5 cm
Document: 40 x 28 cm
Estimate
TWD 400,000-550,000USD 12,400-17,100
HKD 0-0
Hammer Price
TWD 480,000USD 15,026
HKD 120,421
Shi Jin-Hua, born in 1964 in Magong, Penghu, graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Irvine. He is one of Taiwan's few conceptual and performance artists. Since childhood, he has suffered from diabetes and the accompanying pain of long-term treatment. Shi Jin-Hua has transformed these experiences into a driving force for his artistic creation, treating his body as a tool through which he communicates the traces of his art. He has been invited to exhibit at the Taipei Biennial and the Asia Biennial multiple times. His 2000 exhibition, "Walking with a Pencil - Shi Jin-Hua's Performance Document Exhibition" at the Huashan Cultural and Creative Park, launched his most renowned work, the "Walking Pencil" series. He won the "2007 Taipei Art Award – Grand Prize" and the "2011 9th Taishin Arts Award." From 2003 to 2004, he was an artist-in-residence at the "MoMA Contemporary Art Center" in New York. His works are also in the collections of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, White Rabbit Gallery, and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Shi Jin-Hua's works reflect the physical constraints and torment he has experienced since childhood. In the "Walking Pencil" series, he metaphorically likens a pencil to life and a medium, where the marks left by the pencil represent the actions of a lifetime. This imagery evokes the transience of life, emphasizing that we are all tools driven by spirit and thought, with the pencil traces symbolizing the trajectory of our actions. His works reveal the flow of life, where every line is a painstaking interpretation of life's path, repeatedly traversing the same journey and inviting viewers to connect with the story of every strand of life. Since the first "Walking Pencil," Shi Jin-Hua has consistently challenged and subverted institutional constraints and objective existence. Through his endless pencil-walking performance, he expresses human frustration, futility, and the desire for redemption, allowing viewers to resonate with these emotions and prompting deeper reflections on the various aspects of life.