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    YEH TZUCHI (b.1957)

    Nostalgia from the Bathroom

    1991-1994

    Oil on Canvas
    86x218cm

    Signed TzuChi in Chinese and dated 1991-94

    Estimate TWD 2,600,000-3,800,000
    USD 85,000-124,200
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 3,422,000
    USD 0
    HKD 0

Provenance：

Illustrated：\\\'\\\'ART TAIPEI 2008 ", Elsa art gallery ,2008,Page 12

Exhibition：

Exposition：

Artist Yeh Tze-Chi, grew up in Yuli, Hua Lien, he spent his passionate teenage years studying art in the Northern part of Taiwan, and later continued his education in New York during his Thirties. Rooted in Taiwan and continued his career around two decades in America, Yeh Tze-Chi possessed a rather broad and open perspective towards life, which his works are mostly oriented in, particularly during his mid-age when he was determined to return to his homeland rather than settling down overseas. The spontaneity and complexity of his life experiences combined Chinese and Western culture, in which contributes to his paintings that contain extreme depth of reminiscence. 

 Essence of still-life objects often traveled through ridged paths and condensed journey of time before they arrive at the control of artists’ eligible inspirations. Yeh Tze-Chi once said, “To me, still-life is indoor scenery, scenery is outdoor still-life.” The visions of still-life in his works have come to a realization of deep yearnings. Nostalgia From the Bathroom is one of Yeh Tze-Chi’s paintings that demonstrated an extension of his innovative technique of replacing the entire composition with regional emphasis. He triggered human senses, leading the audience from a straightforward still-life painting to a deeper level of philosophical questioning. Pieces of mandarin orange skins compliment the faucet that speaks for the coexistence of humidity and aridity. The indifferent scent of medal flows within the air and through the room of warm florescent lighting. Yeh Tze-Chi adopted the constrained space and tension of a restroom for a stronger and more comprehensive expression of emotions in doubts and concerns. 

 The palm with a size of a square inch measures the distant between home and the land across ocean in a realistic yet poetic interpretation. Defined yet intertwined creases give reference to the options and challenges one faces in life. It all comes back to the questions of life that many artists examine, where the initial choices linger within the universe that doesn’t allow peace but extinction of all living things. The clean and sharp toothbrush draws parallel to the strict and conscientious daily routines. The cleansing process each day journeys back to reality, as the diasporas is forced to live everyday battling against their yearning of home. The painting not only holds an imaginary shift in time, but also deplores the un-returnable moments in sight. 

Only in a restroom can one communicate with oneself in complete nakedness, to Yeh it was to express his longing for home. Exclusively, the purest and simplest language of one’s origin should express full and wistful asides. Yeh Tze-Chi said, “It is home to artists, wherever they can continued to work and create.” Foreign artists arrive at home wherever their paintbrush may lead them. By painting continuously and expressing his thoughts in shapes and forms is the only way he may defeat the sentimental emotions.

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