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    XUE SONG (b.1965)

    Dialogue with Mondrian No.11

    2012

    Mixed Media on Canvas
    240x180cm

    Signed Xue Song in English

    Estimate TWD 3,500,000-4,600,000
    USD 116,700-153,300
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 5,310,000
    USD 0
    HKD 0

Provenance：

Illustrated："ILLUSTRATED ""XUE SONG works 1988-2013"", Moca@Loewen Singapore, Linda Gallery, 2013, Page 85"

Exhibition："EXHIBITION ""Shanghai Style: Xue Song Solo Exhibition"", MOCA@Loewen, Singapore, 2013"

Exposition：

Xue Song, born in 1965, his excellence and vivid style are unique in Chinese art world. His visual images are re-composition of history and reality, his objects and contents are based on the ever changing world. The avant-garde approach speaks of the culture. His artworks are wildly recognized and collected at museums and collectors.

Since college, Xue Song was enthusiastic about collaging and restructuring boring materials. A big fire in 1990 destroyed his studio but it inspired him to present art in a new form. He said “My artworks are inspired by fire.” He found debris of books, bed sheets and such, after careful thoughts, he transformed and collaged them onto the canvas and giving them a new life. Art critic Jiang Mei said “Xue Song is a terminator of ready-made images; he is also the creator of resurrected images and meanings.”

Starting from 1998, Xue Song began a series of conversation with art masters in world art history. The series became a combination of literati fun and western presentation. “Dialogue with Mondrian No.11” is the result of a conversation between post modernism art master Piet Mondrian.

Piet Mondrian of Netherlands is a classical figure in western art history. He pursuit a simple harmony effect between lines and color blocks. He focuses on three base colors- red, yellow and blue. He boldly believed that restraint is freedom, simplicity is full. The lines are firm and straight; the colors are vivid and lively in ”Dialogue with Mondrian No.11”, it echoes with his famous line “Trees are straight, seas are horizontal. The right angle is the foundation of everything.” It is the daily life order that strikes a balance between color blocks and lines. The blocks in various sizes and vivid colors form a combination that wins admiration and harmony; it is like a piece of beautiful symphony. The western art master’s belief can be seen in Xue Song’s art work with burning and bold black lines in it. It represented landscape atmosphere in Chinese traditional panting. The layering of Chinese and Western art essence allows a conversation to happen. With Xue Song solid literati foundation, he diminished the strong expressionist approach in western art and skillfully brought out the concrete cultural meaning between the abstract lines to create a vivid and interesting aesthetic feeling. 

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