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Zhong Cheng 2024 Autumn Auction「Modern And Contemporary Art」

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    KU FU-SHENG (b.1935-2017)

    Mystic

    1984

    Mix Medium on Paper
    58×44㎝

    Signed Ku in English and dated 1984 With one seal of the Artist

    Estimate TWD 120,000-240,000
    USD 3,900-7,700
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 118,000
    USD 0
    HKD 0

Provenance:

Illustrated:’’The Floating of Being: The Retrospective of Ku Fusheng 1959-1996’’, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1997, Page 57

Exhibition:’’The Floating of Being: The Retrospective of Ku Fusheng 1959-1996’’, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1997

Exposition:

In a creative career spanning more than forty years, Ku Fu-Sheng has experienced the clash of Eastern of Western cultures and the debate between tradition and modernity, but has never lost his faith in human dignity. To further investigate the content and form of Ku Fu-Sheng’s art, I will broadly divide his career into a number of stages and attempt to briefly state the distinctive psychological character of each period, as basis for further analysis and discussion.

Ku Fu-Sheng moved to San Francisco. The bright sunshine and slower pace of Californian life pacified a traveling heart exposed to culture shock. Restrictions and manners were gradually liberated. Ku started to use the relationship between human and nature as the vehicle for his commentary on life. Ku instead of making descriptive linear works, worked freely on collages of printed papers. His attitude towards art is spontaneous and fee-minded, while the culturally-rich images, colors and forms automatically unveil the subconscious of the arts.

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