Lot  133 Ravenel Spring Auction 2020 Taipei

Ravenel Spring Auction 2020 Taipei

Autumn Pond

HONG Ling (Chinese, 1955)

1999

Oil on canvas

140 x 200 cm

Estimate

TWD 5,000,000-7,000,000

HKD 1,285,000-1,799,000

USD 165,900-232,300

CNY 1,179,000-1,651,000

Sold Price

TWD 5,520,000

HKD 1,448,819

USD 186,739

CNY 1,308,057


Signature

Signed center left Hong Ling in Chinese and dated 99. 10; Titled on the reverse Autumn Pond and inscribed Hong Ling created on 99. 10

ILLUSTRATED:
Concious Landscape, Anhui Art Publishing House, Anhui, 2000, color illustrated, p 54
Metaphor of Landscape, Soka Art Center, Tainan, 2003, color illustrated, pp. 30-31

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Hong Ling’s paintings utilize oil-stacking to construct landscapes. The vivid artistic conception of mountains and rivers embody the spirit of Western abstract expression, while also harboring the connotation of “Creation from the dialectical unity of naturalism and internal comprehension”. Hong uses his unique Eastern language to construct his own independent spiritual painting space with the help of Western media. He values the characteristics of oil painting materials as a medium, and uses the Chinese perception towards nature to express his own landscape oil paintings. Amidst resemblance and non-resemblance, Hong expresses his individual life experiences. His landscape paintings have always had the remnants of natural objects, and being invariably rich in color, the subtle chromatic aberrations bring out a natural aesthetic much like breathing. Sometimes they feature broad ambiguous ambience, utilizing dripping "defects" to produce the general atmosphere. At the same time, the Western perspective is not limited to the lights and shadows that change with time, abandoning the visual expression of the landscape to enter a contextual subjective construction.

In “Autumn Pond” he draws on the traditional painting styles and technical methods, integrating them with Western oil painting art to create artworks with the aesthetics of Chinese painting. They serve as attempts to launch the inception of Eastern cultural spirit, and regenerate and gradually establish its own landscape language system. He is one of the few artists in the Chinese art scene who can represent the spirit of Chinese landscape culture.
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Modern & Contemporary Asian Art

Ravenel Spring Auction 2020 Taipei

Sunday, July 19, 2020, 2:30pm