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    YANG CHIHUNG (b.1947)

    Like A Dream

    2007

    Acrylic on Canvas
    170.2x221cm

    Signed on the reverse: Chihung Yang and title in English, dated 2007

    Estimate TWD 2,000,000-3,000,000
    USD 66,400-99,500
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 3,360,000
    USD 112,375
    HKD 884,211

Provenance：

Illustrated：ILLUSTRATED: "YANG CHIHUNG - Recent Paintings," China Square, New York, U.S.A., 2008, Page 32 - 33

Exhibition：

Exposition：

“Throughout our lives, time flies like an arrow, invisibly and intangibly, and yet just like gravity, it is indeed existent. I wish there was a sculptor with a shaping ability who tried to chisel and sculpt out the formless time and then leave unfanciful traces of sculpting behind. My creations are just like sculpting time, which are the best evidences of its existence. I had worked wholeheartedly without resting or faring in attempt to maintain every truest spot, drop, stroke, and wipe.” ─ Yang Chi-Hung

Throughout his creating career, he has garnered a fruitful artistic attainment; the artist's explorations were tightly linked to the meanings of life and went through different stages which could be generally divided into “The Arguments of Actuality and Abstractionism,” “The Aesthetics of the Era of Copying,” “The New Expressionism,” “The Symbolism and Lyricism of Plants',” The Organical Abstract Expressionism.” His painting strokes lingered between consciousness and subconsciousness, condensing the changes of time into one moment and implanting the symbols of time into the canvases. He stands for a representative status in Asia's art circle and has become the focus of the lime lights as an abstract expressionist in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world.

 Through the poetic expressions which are steamy as light fogs, the graceful work “Like A Dream” has a spiritually clear design and coloring which fluently convey the painter’s mindset, making viewers wander into a dream-like world and lose sense of their self-awareness - the creation is prefund in meaning yet light in its image, and thus arouses the impression that neither the image or the spirit is real and that neither the dream or the reality existent. The strokes brought out the half-real-and-half-unreal outline which take the minds of viewers wander through the glittery moments of an unrealistic midnight’s dream-like world and make them totally forget about their explorations in the realm of art.

During the dream-like moments while viewers’ souls thrill and tremble, the spirituality of the inner world and his open-heartedness toward lives captured by the eye of the soul were conveyed through the paintings, and the flash-like moments were thereby retained, revealing the underlying meaning that life passes like a racing horse. The dimly painted colors are seemingly symbolizing all earthly things and silently sitting aside watching all objects and matters in this world.

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