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Zhong Cheng 2024 Autumn Auction「Modern And Contemporary Art」

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    TU HONGTAO (b.1976)

    One of Distant Cloud

    2005

    Oil on Canvas
    80×100cm

    Signed on Reverse: Tu Hongtao in Chinese and Tu Tu in English, dated 2005.8

    Estimate TWD 280,000-350,000
    USD 9,000-11,300
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 306,800
    USD 10,227
    HKD 0

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After the 1970s, a new generation of artists started using images, cartoons, comics and advertisements as materials and subjects for their creations, but Tu insisted on continuing with tradional oil painting. His work depicts the surreal or prophetic situations from everyday life. He once said, “Dissembling brings entertainment, it dispels thoughts and makes me feel fragile and dazed. Cartoons cannot solve my problems. How can I resist the influences of the cartoons? I discover the influence of landscapes, and I use such a method to resist the common values of the age…” Thus, modern inspiration for Tu comes from everyday life, creating a personal visual fable through the structure of landscape paintings, forming a net-like image. Such works serve as a reflection on the times, hinting at the loneliness of man and the discord of modern urban life.  

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