PRINTThis sculpture is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity issued by the nonprofit organization Juming Culture and Education Foundation - Juming Museum.
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Taichi Series
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1991 Camphor 47(L) x 22(W) x 28(H) cm Engraved bottom side Ju Ming in Chinese and dated '91 |
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Estimate
1,900,000 - 2,800,000 451,000 - 665,000 58,200 - 85,800
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Sold Price
1,920,000 459,330 59,113
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This sculpture is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity issued by the nonprofit organization Juming Culture and Education Foundation - Juming Museum.
Catalogue Note:
In his Taichi series, Ju Ming embodies the serenely powerful ambiance of oriental philosophy and traditional culture. A spiritual practice, Taichi allows practitioners to connect deeply with nature, and achieve a balance between the opposing cosmological forces of yin and yang. Imbued with spiritual power, Ju Ming’s Taichi sculptures epitomize the mystifying essence of nature. Ju Ming masterfully articulates this abstruse traditional Chinese spirit through an aesthetic inspired by Western Modernist expression.
While distinct in form, each exploration in Ju Ming’s Taichi series contains inspiration from traditional Chinese aesthetics. Deliberately departing from his highly meticulous and realistic sculpting techniques, Ju instead elects to imitate the traditional Chinese painting and calligraphic aesthetic of qiyun shengdong—“spiritual resonance and life-like motion”—as a means of articulating a sense of liveliness and vitality. Ju Ming’s unrestricted and unintentional sculpting technique emanates clearly from works such as Taichi Serie, where the wooden medium prominently displays each carved stroke. As seen in this piece, Ju Ming’s artistic style shares similarities with the dafupicun technique of Chinese painting, where strokes are applied with the intention of resembling the cuts made by a large axe. In this wooden Single Whip, the artist has allowed each stroke to remain visible, therefore combining with the finished form as an integral part of the sculpture itself. Here, the negative space created by act of sculpting and the wooden body which remains merge together as an embodiment of yin and yang which the artist continually celebrates throughout his sculptural series. In keeping with the ideals of this technique, Ju Ming believes that when sculpting, there is no reason to think. Only the most direct way of sculpting can create the most genuine piece of art. 128
While distinct in form, each exploration in Ju Ming’s Taichi series contains inspiration from traditional Chinese aesthetics. Deliberately departing from his highly meticulous and realistic sculpting techniques, Ju instead elects to imitate the traditional Chinese painting and calligraphic aesthetic of qiyun shengdong—“spiritual resonance and life-like motion”—as a means of articulating a sense of liveliness and vitality. Ju Ming’s unrestricted and unintentional sculpting technique emanates clearly from works such as Taichi Serie, where the wooden medium prominently displays each carved stroke. As seen in this piece, Ju Ming’s artistic style shares similarities with the dafupicun technique of Chinese painting, where strokes are applied with the intention of resembling the cuts made by a large axe. In this wooden Single Whip, the artist has allowed each stroke to remain visible, therefore combining with the finished form as an integral part of the sculpture itself. Here, the negative space created by act of sculpting and the wooden body which remains merge together as an embodiment of yin and yang which the artist continually celebrates throughout his sculptural series. In keeping with the ideals of this technique, Ju Ming believes that when sculpting, there is no reason to think. Only the most direct way of sculpting can create the most genuine piece of art. 128