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YE YONGQING (b.1958)

Scribble (Bird)

2006

Oil on Canvas
150x150cm

Signed Ye Yong Qing in Chinese and English, dated 2006

Estimate TWD 1,600,000-2,000,000
USD 54,500-68,100
HKD 426,000-533,000

Hammer Price TWD 1,800,000
USD 60,606
HKD 478,723

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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.

In 2000, Ye Yong Qing began to reduce the content in his works, choosing pieces and individual symbols from his scribbling, and choosing a path of two extremes: Duchamp’s firm beliefs and the schematization of image style. He would take some symbols and forms, often the birds from the scribbled pictures, first sketching them out in paper and pencil, then projecting them onto the canvas, filling them out along the lines. He delicately emphasizes the coarse details, making the overall form seem coarse. But no matter what, the artist always uses the most stripped-down approach. He synthesizes Duchamp’s clear concepts with the ancient concepts of “many and few” or “complete and simple”, even using the ancient one’s concepts of “something” and “nothing” to understand the reasoning of Duchamp. The resulting “bird” become 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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