With a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
Provenance：
Illustrated：
Exhibition："Alive & Kicking," Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Sichuan, China, October 24th-November 3rd, 2012
Exposition：With a placement instructions.
Alive and Kicking is a discourse on the transformation of primitive desires that accompanies mental growth. It is also an interdisciplinary exploration of the tension in art and passion in life. Life flourishes because of the existence of desires, emotions and dreams, and in Alive and Kicking, Zhou Chunya and Jaime Hayon are examining and this instinctive desire and impulse, while infusing them into contemporary design thinking.
The Green Dog Series is Zhou's signature series. In Alive and Kicking, 30 green dogs of similar sizes but varied expressions are sitting, standing or lying down, exhibiting a multitude of emotions and forms. Green dog is a signifier, a messenger. Depicted in anti-naturalistic color, it strongly alludes to the insatiable human desire. The vessel that contains this insatiable human desire is the creation of the ingenious artist designer Jamie Hayon from Spain. Known for his surrealistic and eclectic style, he often draws inspirations from beetles and block-shaped objects. Hayon continues his usual playful style here, striking a balance between elegance and practicality with contemporarily clean and organic lines. In a chest of dreams filled with numerous desires symbolized by the green dogs, this design is meant to trigger the innermost desire within us.
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