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Zhong Cheng 2024 Autumn Auction「Modern And Contemporary Art」

  • Zhong Cheng 2010 Spring Auction
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    YE YONGQING (b.1958)

    Scrawl (Bird)

    2006

    Oil on Canvas
    150×150㎝

    Signed Ye Yong Qing in Chinese and English, dated 2006

    Estimate TWD 1,800,000-2,800,000
    USD 58,100-90,300
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 2,006,000
    USD 0
    HKD 0

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Ye Yong Qing intended to transform the traditional image of the symbol “bird”, and subvert the old techniques. Bestowing inspirations from the artworks of Chuck Close; exemplifying from birds that he had drawn in the past to make it different from a realism approach; utilizing the simplest instruments in an intricate process; showing a improvisation picture opposite from the traditional fastidiousness on birds and flowers. It is embodiment of graffiti yet every stroke shows the artist’s persistence. 

From 2000, Ye Yong Qing began to reduce the content in his works, choosing pieces and individual symbols from his graffiti and developed a path of two extremes: Duchamp’s firm beliefs and the personification of image. He would take some symbols and forms, often the birds from the graffiti, and sketch them out in paper and pencil, then projecting them onto the canvas, filling them out along the margin. Sometimes, he delicately emphasizes the coarse details, making the overall form seem coarse. The artist always uses the most stripped-down approach and synthesizes Duchamp’s clear concepts with the ancient concepts of “many and few” or “complete and simple”. He even applied the ancient concepts of “something” versus “nothing” to comprehend the reasoning of Duchamp. In result, the “bird” becomes the “non-bird”, because the artist easily follows his life and cultural experience to bring together the concepts of “bird” and “nothingness”. 

- Quoted from The Path of the “Bird” – Ye Yongqing’s Artist Journey, by Lu Peng

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