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Zhong Cheng 2024 Autumn Auction「Modern And Contemporary Art」

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    SU WONGSHEN (b.1956)

    Backyard of the New House

    1997

    Oil on Canvas
    40.5x50.5cm

    Signed on the Reverse: Su Wangshen and Title in Chinese and dated 1997

    Estimate TWD 300,000-400,000
    USD 10,200-13,600
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 306,800
    USD 10,244
    HKD 0

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Su Wong-Sheng composes his works around a special perspective, a kind of coldly detached observation from a space far above the subject, we as viewers gold our breath and search for the secret of what lies within our gaze below. As Taiwan’s democracy has advanced in recent years, Su has developed a concern for worldly affairs. In response to the human theatre of elections, Su has painted works entitled “A certain Housing Project”, in which there appear strangely shaped, upside-down creatures, and in works from an earlier period, Su attempted to display on the near, level canvas the weakness of the unbalanced, as a distant, tranquil and meditative perspective on the clamor of society. In the heat of the election season he contemplated human nature, in the balance of contradictions between creative work and daily life, he found the spontaneous analogy of “the beauty of imperfection.” Su Wong-shen’s reflections on the surreal in society are uniquely Taiwanese form of the late 20th-century contemporary art.

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