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    FANG LIJUN (b.1963)

    2006 Spring

    2006

    Oil on Canvas
    64x47cm

    Signed Fang Li-Jun in Chinese, dated 2006, titled Spring in Chinese

    Estimate TWD 2,400,000-3,000,000
    USD 80,000-100,000
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 2,714,000
    USD 0
    HKD 0

Provenance：PROVENANCE Private Collection, Europe Sotheby\\\\\\\'s Hong Kong, Contemporary Asian Art, 2 April 2012, Lot 896

Illustrated：ILLUSTRATED "Live Like a Wild Dog: 1963-2008 Archival Documentation of Fang Lijun", Vision Art, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009, Page320

Exhibition：

Exposition：

“My artworks are inspired by the simplest and easiest language, the idea makes it easy to face the audience and therefore build a relationship with them. I’m not even hesitated by confrontation.”  
---Fang Li Jun


To Fang Li Jun, art circles around human and humanity. Humanity is like a bouncing ball, we never know where it will land at. However, through communication and echoing between the artist and audience; with portraits as mediums and leaving only symbols and concepts, the artist enables it to become anyone, a representative of the common rather than personality.

Before 2006, his artworks come with a strong cynical realism style that expressed strong cynical and rebellious spirits. His baldness was a signature for the boredom and sarcasm that existed in Chinese society in the late 80s and early 90s. The sarcasm was presented with deep blue sea and sky in the background which made the presentation even more absurd. The audience was able to realize the darker side of life. However, in 2006 and 2007, Fang created a series with the sky as the main theme that presented weather change, lightening and cloud, sunny sky, dawn or the endless clouds. Everything was without boundary. Bugs, birds and sleepy babies were liberated. It echoed his art style that is gradually become liberated and free-willed. Art critic Liu Chun said “if the early works expressed domineering aggression, then his works today expressed patience.” Unreal objects become real in his artworks because he was never restrained by the public eye or rationality. He was still at ease even facing the realistic society.

Fang Li Jun’s artworks today use children as the art language because of the birth of her daughter in 2005. He transformed his love for his daughter into children, clouds, and the blue sky. He embellished the pure newborn with delicate and tranquil setting. In《2006 Spring》, two children hopped into the skyline by grabbing the giant shoe under the blue sky and clouds. They stride forward with a smirk. The picture is warm and simple. The color tone is bright and shiny. Hope and dreams extend deep into the clouds with the beams of their sight into the sky.

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