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Zhong Cheng 2024 Autumn Auction「Modern And Contemporary Art」

  • Zhong Cheng 2013 Spring Auction「Chinese Contemporary Art & Sculptures」
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    XUE SONG (b.1965)

    Dialogue with Mandarian No.8

    2009

    Mixed Media
    85x200cm

    Signed Xue Song in Chinese Signed on the Reverse: Xue Song in English and Chinese, ""Dialogue with Mandarian No.8""in Chinese, sized 2009

    Estimate TWD 1,200,000-1,800,000
    USD 39,300-59,000
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 1,534,000
    USD 51,650
    HKD 0

Provenance：

Illustrated："Xue Song works from1988-2013", Museum of Contemporary Art Singapore( MOCA), 2013, Page 146-147

Exhibition："Shanghai Style Xue Song 1988-2013 Exhibition", April 2013, Museum of Contemporary Art Singapore ( MOCA), 2013

Exposition：

Song Xue utilizes publications to layer collage. He blended traditional Chinese art forms, such as calligraphy, water ink or folk arts, with modern techniques. After the accident of his art studio in 1991, he began using burnt papers as the main material for his collage, and it inspired him enabling the artworks to stand very substantial places in Chinese contemporary scenery arts since the 90s.

“ Not wasting a single piece of ash, with glue, I contoured an art piece.” Song Xue

The landscape artwork《Dialogue with Mandarian No.8》focuses the objects in a closer view. The artist contoured the Karesan rock with black lines and collaged the paper background with green color. The combination of traditional landscape and paper shreds reflects each other in harmony. The modern skyscraper intrudes the tranquil traditional landscape in houses, rivers and hillsides and blanks. It seems unfamiliar, strange yet interesting. As though these modern architectures fell into the time machine and landed into this piece of serene heaven.

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