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Zhong Cheng 2024 Autumn Auction「Modern And Contemporary Art」

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    YANG CHIHUNG (b.1947)

    Image Puzzle

    1982

    Oil on Canvas
    152x198cm

    Signed Chihung Yang and titled in English, dated 1982

    Estimate TWD 1,100,000-1,600,000
    USD 36,300-52,800
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 1,652,000
    USD 0
    HKD 0

Provenance：

Illustrated：ILLUSTRATED "The Images of the Mind: Chihung Yang\\\\\\\'s Painting", National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004, Page 149

Exhibition：

Exposition：

“Painting is the observation and realization of life. The Eastern and Western spiritual concepts or the form of the new and old, is naturally composed by the thoughts and art language.” 
---Yang Chi Hung

Through continually exploring and caring about life, Yang Chi-Hung’s creation in object and his mind are liberal and prolific. From contemplation of the meaning of life and existence during his student years to the exploration of civil after working to experiencing cultural differences while abroad to going through vicissitudes of life and death, Yang Chi-Hung’s art style went through different phases along time. He later developed plantation aesthetics and stream of consciousness, and then praising life from realizing life and death. His art language is energetic and magnificent. His prolific artworks secured his position as one of the greatest abstract painters after Zao Wu-Ki and Chu Teh-Chun.  

“Image Puzzle” was completed in 1982 and is one of the masterpieces of the “plus and minus” series. The artist incorporated and assembled little objects in life such as birds, bugs and fish into the same surface along with life experiences. He tries to search for reality and skillfully employed mathematics symbol to calculate the process like guidance. 
The implication and metaphor of the “plus sign” and “minus sign” and “multiple sign” created a limitless imaginary space to nurture international art language and also a way to experience the artist’s vitality. 

The artist’s passion and surreal composition enabled the artwork to be elegant, civil and full of humanity. Xi Song once said “every piece of art work is a story of Yang Chi Hung, it can be history or about life and death or maybe about the indifference and communication of the modern world. He courageously put together all kinds of subjects into one canvas until saturated.” Through skillful allocation and composition, the colors are flowing and liberal. “Image Puzzle” is humble yet strong and leads viewers into the simple but innocent lines with rich colors that reveal polysemy in the text in details. Viewers enter a boundless world that is poetic and full of aesthetics magnificence. 

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