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Zhong Cheng 2024 Autumn Auction「Modern And Contemporary Art」

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    SU XINPING (b. 1960)

    Expression No.1

    1998

    Oil on Canvas
    162×130cm

    Signed Su Xinping in English and dated 1998

    Estimate TWD 900,000-1,500,000
    USD 31,600-52,600
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 1,003,000
    USD 35,070
    HKD 0

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Su Xinping’s deelpy felt scenes almost always portray an apocalyptic allegory. His paintings tend to symbolize the experience of a Chinese Everyman, whose struggles and striving may be read as a comment on the momentous changes taking place in China today. Su depicts people at variance with the world in which they live, even when they appear cheerful. In Su’s world, life is a fight for survifal, an endless quest for an elusive purpose in a heavy atmosphere where alienation plays a leading role. In his banquets, interior genre scenes, and indicidual figures, the viewer senses that Su’s rendition of modern Chinese life is essentially pessimistic consisting of shallow experiences hidden behind feigned pleasures and the overwhelming drive toward happiness and success. Su doesn’t look to future with optimism or even dismay; instead, he concentrates on the present, in which men and women simply enact the roles assigned them by society. Within these narrowly defined public rituals, Su’s figures appear forlorn, their unknown private lives mysteriously infecting the settings in which they find themselves.

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