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Zhong Cheng 2024 Autumn Auction「Modern And Contemporary Art」

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    MAO XUHUI (b.1956)

    Scissors-The Dream of Guishan Mountain No.1

    2006

    Oil on Canvas
    130×160cm

    gned on the reverse: MAO XUHUI in Chinese and dated 2006.9

    Estimate TWD 1,400,000-2,400,000
    USD 42,420-72,730
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 1,475,000
    USD 45,245
    HKD 0

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As one representative of Chinese “New Representationism” movement in 1980s, Mao, organizer of Southwest artistic research group. As one symbol of Scissor stepped into his creation in early 1990s and possessed the ability to express various conceptions in different contexts.

Asked in 2000 by the critic Monica Demattam whether he saw the form of scissors as a contrast between sharpness and roundness, Mao replied that,” These two aspects constitute the dialectic of my being and I am aware that I need them deeply in order to rebuild the harmonic unity within myself.” In both their ordinary form and metaphysical implications, scissors have provided this artist with a source of inspiration that has sustained him through an era in which many ties to the past have been cut！Mao has remarked,” Sometimes, I used the scissors as an unusual symbol, pasting it onto different scenes in real life in order to express feelings of indignation and disquiet. Having gone through this phase, I no linger think about authority when I paint scissors; rather I now think it is not important to discuss what they are going to cut, but what feelings are generated-their significance, the meaning of shape through rough style and not literal effect. I am not actually painting scissors, but rather the image of scissors.”

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