Night Town

1989

Oil on canvas

153.5 x 204 cm

Signed lower right Chuang Che in Chinese

Estimate
1,800,000 - 2,800,000
461,500 - 717,900
62,100 - 96,600
Sold Price
4,720,000
1,211,499
155,238

Ravenel Spring Auction 2008

049

CHUANG Che (Taiwanese, b. 1934)

Night Town


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Chuang Che's art conveys rich predicament, moderate colors and emotion. Like the hybrid of oil painting and mixed materials, the powerful strokes highlight lively exercise and rhythm. In light of the overall panorama, Chuang's painting is fully well-rounded with a canvas illed with rich lair. Chuang's art is like a chaotic universe with lines of framework or colored patterns as alarming power resisting chaos and flowing within universe to signify masculine aura. Like his painting, Chuang has arrived at the spectrum in search of chaos and natural fulillment. (Fan Di An, Director of China National Museum of Arts)


The Chinese Abstractionist Chuang Che's "Deep Ridge-Remote Way" solo exhibition was housed at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, August 2007. Chuang has moved to the U.S. since 1973 and resided in New York for over 30 years. Given the geographical location, Chuang has been able to explore the characteristics of Western culture to obtain its advantages while blending Eastern aestheticism into modern works to convey his abstract painting style. Chuang Che is good at leading us into a new world illed with harmony of yin and yang. His strokes and coloring predicament lead us to a pure natural harmonious realm. Following his lines, predicament, and strokes to explore, we will discover the new world with pure light, bright colors, genuine felling, and poetic lair. It allows us to feel free, comfortable, serene, joyful, and expressive to reach a stage, fully immersed in the colorful panorama by the primacy of being.


Jeffrey Wechsler, senior curator at the Zimmerli, "once made a strong case for viewing Chuang's art. While Chuang was in the spectrum of transforming Chinese calligraphy and visual tradition, we have found the balance. The flowing lines in speed tangle between visual elegance and wild power testify the natural extension of calligraphy. In fact, some of Chuang's early works in the 60s employ brushed Chinese pictographs to distinguish abstract image to blend Western symbols and Asian calligraphy".


"Night Town" is the master piece of Chuang Che's art in the 80s, with black and grey as the background color in resilient but wild coloring along with spattering dye and Chinese brush. The painting blends yellow, white and black dots with longitudinal lines to display the mixing colors in the dimming darkness. The intense and powerful deep lair adds mysticism to the night's serenity to display the restless silence and the rhythm in the darkness.


The continuous oil on the canvas displays the unlimited power of the universe just as at arrival of the darkest night, it slips into unconscious night to bring up rich colors into calligraphy spirit in order to highlight the power of force and to experience life lowing and dancing in the dark. An overwhelming musical movement in the dark is at play in the spectacle's mind. Night town occupies a territory in everyone's mind, a place purposefully invisible and forgotten.


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