Lot 244
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Gede Mahendra Yasa

Estimate
140,000 - 250,000 HKD
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Description

  • Gede Mahendra Yasa
  • Silver Acrylic Paint on Face # 2
  • Signed, titled and dated 2009 on the reverse
  • Oil on canvas
  • 250 by 199.5 cm.; 98 1/4 by 78 1/2 in.

Condition

This painting is in good condition overall, as is the canvas, which is clear and taut. Examination under ultraviolet light, there was no mark of restoration. The painting appears more dramatic in reality as the metallic silver effect is more prominent in the actual work than in the catalogue illustration. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

"... Mahendra Yasa is presenting a type of self-portrait
that negates the tradition of self portraiture in general; and in a contradictory way, actually revitalizes it. And that is why Mahendra Yasa's current paintings have the internal power to keep moving, in search of various possibilities of change and difference that can be conceptually achieved by the contemporary art of painting, after the practice of painting has been accepted for so long and has continued to keep going until today."

ENIN SUPRIYANTO CITED IN AS THE FACE NO LONGER BESPEAKS THE SOUL: GEDE MAHENDRA YASA, EXH. CAT., SIGIARTS, 2010, BACK COVER