Pork Belly Series - Flesh, Flowers and Birds - Flying Dragon

2008

Oil on canvas

145 x 200 cm

Titled on the reverse Pork Belly Series - Flesh, Flowers and Birds - Dragon in Chinese, signed Chang-Ling in Chinese and dated 2008

Estimate
350,000 - 450,000
83,000 - 107,000
10,900 - 14,100
Sold Price
480,000
115,886
14,874

Ravenel Spring Auction 2010 Taipei

118

Chang-Ling (Taiwanese, b. 1975)

Pork Belly Series - Flesh, Flowers and Birds - Flying Dragon


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Born in 1975 in Hualien, Taiwan, Chang -Ling entered École Nationale de Beaux-art in Bourges and began to study European contemporary art. In 2000, he transferred to École Nationale Superieure de Beaux-arts in Paris, and followed Christian Boltanski, Jean-Luc Vilmouth and Jean-Marc Bustamante. He said: "'Meat' is my pronoun of art, and I extended 5 topics for discussion from the angle of meat, which is the Pork Belly series". He used meat as the element to compose sceneries or weapons in the picture, where the red pigment looks like blood. But he doesn't want to manifest cruelty or violence; while instead, he changes meat and blood into luxury feelings and abundant desires. The flesh lumps implicate carnal desires, and make the vivid colors in the picture intensely irritate your sense organs and show the hidden dark violence and blood sense. Chang-Ling said: "Our mountains and rivers have already been robbed by human selfish desires, and I just used a simple way to express the relic facts."


Picture of "Flesh, Flowers and Birds - Flying Dragon" has the dragon image and in-betweenness of creation as the chief axis and probes into and reflects on identity subject during individual artistic creation. By the experiment of transferring the holy beast of ancient legends into in-betweenness image in formal lexicon and developing the discussion of individual spiritual layer in painting, Chang-Ling tries to connect "western and eastern"; and the artistic in-betweenness between "representationalism and imagism". Chang-Ling's Pork Belly series intend to interpret the connection of western and eastern arts, and thus create the modern art culture, status and identity of Taiwan as well as the complicated and vague homeland feelings deep in his personal cultural memories.


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