Chinese Portrait Series

2008

Oil on canvas

210 x 210 cm

Signed lower right FENG ZHENG JIE in Chinese and English, dated 2008

Estimate
3,800,000 - 5,800,000
894,000 - 1,365,000
116,200 - 177,400
Sold Price
3,840,000
925,301
119,403

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2009 Taipei

156

FENG Zhengjie (Chinese, b. 1968)

Chinese Portrait Series


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Catalogue Note:

...Different from Gaudy and Pop art, while Feng Zhengjie employs ready-made images, the antitype of these images is not important at all. It is important that Feng Zhengjie has developed a form of image according to contemporary visual experience. The works look like exaggerated photographs related to fashion, but are imagined and constructed artificially. During the period of creation, the artist abandons ethical judgment. If Gaudy Art is spiritually centered on irony, then Feng Zhengjie's spiritual core is to develop a new aesthetic interest and means of processing images by borrowing from commercial culture and popular culture, to achieve a new form of contemporary commercial images through imitation.


- Excerpt from the essay "Transcending Meretriciousness" by Pi Li, translated by Karen Smith, first published in the catalogue "Feng Zhengjie" on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Marella Gallery (November-December 2005).


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