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Zhong Cheng 2024 Autumn Auction「Modern And Contemporary Art」

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    YANG SHU (b.1965)

    Graffiti

    1997

    Oil on Canvas
    146x117cm

    Signed Yang Shu in Chinese, dated 1997

    Estimate TWD 380,000-480,000
    USD 12,200-15,400
    HKD 96,000-122,000

    Hammer Price TWD 420,000
    USD 13,636
    HKD 107,143

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Yang Shu graduated from Sechuan Fine Arts Institute. However, he is not bound by the academic background. He found his own path in expressionism with the graffiti style. In 1995, he received funding to study in Rijksakademie in the Netherlands. The Western approach toward art made him rethink his own. Currently holding a teaching post at Sechuan Fine Arts Institute, he exercises great liberty in choosing his subjects, symbols and elements. He creates a world of fantasy, and a world that is thought-provoking. 

The partial symbols, the casual strokes, the mysterious forms, as the texture and colors intertwine, a stormy darkness brews underneath the soft tones. A visual distinction is born. Behind each ambiguous existence is enormous energy, ready to explode. Willing the brushstrokes with his mind, Yang lets the vibrant colors run abound, creating independent and yet expansive dimensions that are unhurried and ample. The half-dried paint drips down into slivers of white, creating a sense of order among the chaos in an unscripted world. The child-like graffiti exudes hope between the metaphorical and the abstract in a prismatic world created by the artist. This is Yang’s attempt to define his own life and pursue the freedom to paint. In this experiment, he creates his own lexicon with graffiti, which radiates the joy and sorrow in life, the possibilities in painting, and a new definition for the rustic and yet sophisticated art of graffiti.

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