亞洲現代與當代藝術 Modern and Contemporary Asian Art

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Chang-Ling
(Taiwanese, b. 1975)
Pork Belly Series – Waterside – Flower
Figure
2017
Oil on canvas
146 x 70 cm
Signed lower right Chang Ling in Chinese and dated 2017
Signed on the reverse Chang Ling, titled Pork Belly Series –
Waterside– Flower Figure in Chinese, dated 2017
2017
146 x 70 cm
2017
2017
This painting is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity
issued by In Sian Gallery
NT$ 240,000-320,000
HK$ 65,000-86,000
US$ 8,300-11,000
RMB 52,000-69,000
1996
2005
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Chang-Ling is an artist with full of artistic soul. His studies brought
him to France in 1996, and there he quickly latched on to new
movements in contemporary art. And since returning to Taiwan in
2005, he has not let go of his intellectual pursuit and exploration
of creative freedom and subjectivity in contemporary Taiwanese
culture. In his perspective of this memory, which reflects the artist's
self, is also part of the unique creative style of his motherland,
which brings his practice back to its original inspiration: Nature.
“Pork Belly Series — Meaty Landscape” incorporates deposits from
the shores of Chang-Ling’s mind and the artist’s innovative approach
to painting, along with advancements in broader Eastern thought.
The combination creates a fantasy landscape of a distinctly Chang-
Ling-style aesthetic. We see in the work piles of meat in mountains
of different pinks and demonstrating the artist’s technical prowess
with the brush, a strip of road appears like a wisp of cloud or mist
and is as emotive as the sea. At a time when the technology of
human civilisation brings about new changes each day The meaty
landscape is not a representation of traditional landscape painting,
it is a work that means to be a call for the conservation of the earth
and present environment.
A groundbreaking work by Chang-Ling, “Waterside – Flower
Figure” not only alludes to the unforeseen wonder and allegories
of ancient mythology, it also contains in its composition a certain
textural dimension and aesthetic from the expansive landscapes
of classical Chinese painting and calligraphy. A large space on the
canvas is left blank as if to impart on viewers the notion that Chang-
Ling's painting presents a landscape of contemporary times.
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