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Lot #56 - Chen Wenling

  • Auction House:
    Mossgreen-Webb's
  • Sale Name:
    Important Paintings & Contemporary Art
  • Sale Date:
    29 Nov 2017 ~ 6.30pm (New Zealand Daylight Time)
  • Lot #:
    56
  • Lot Description:
    Chen Wenling
    Shy Girl
    cast bronze and vehicle duco, ed. 5/16, 2007
    1100mm x 370mm x 250mm
    signed in Chinese characters and editioned 5/16 on base
  • Provenance:
    Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from Ode To Art Gallery, Singapore.
  • Notes:
    ESSAY: Shy Girl forms part of the suite of Red Memory works by Chen Wenling. In his trademark series, various aspects of the human form are deliberately accentuated; limbs are stretched and elongated, and we are greeted by exaggerated, toothy grins and tightly shut, smiling eyes. Shy Girl embodies a sense of innocence and fun; the bright surface of the sculpture glistens in primary red. Quintessentially associated with China, red connotes the national flag or the colour of a Buddhist monk’s robe, evoking notions of history, royal architecture and auspiciousness. Wenling cleverly weaves this hint of the old world into a figurative sculptural form with an immediately relatable quality. Shy Girl beckons to the viewer to kneel down and smile along with her, to leave the past behind and to play. Chen Wenling (b. 1969) is a Beijing-based artist: a graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Wenling has exhibited at several prestigious international exhibitions and art fairs, including Art Basel, as well as within museums. Like many of his contemporaries, Wenling creates work that becomes an analogy for contemporary life in China, discreetly referencing China’s social history yet, at the same time, reflecting the technical nature of contemporary art in China and an aesthetic tendency towards bold, ambitious forms. Jessica Pearless
  • Estimate:
    NZ$30,000 - 40,000
  • Realised Price:
    *****

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  • Category:
    Art

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