Lot 516
  • 516

Liu Dan

Estimate
2,500,000 - 4,000,000 HKD
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Description

  • Liu Dan
  • Yu Yuan Stone
  • ink on paper, framed
  • 2008
executed in 2008
signed LIU DAN, inscribed, and with one seal of the artist

Exhibited

United Kingdom, London, Saatchi Gallery, Ink: The Art of China, 19 June - 5 July, 2012, p. 77

Literature

Kuo, Jason C., Chinese Ink Painting Now, Distributed Art Publishers, New York, USA; Timezone 8, Hong Kong, China, 2010, p.73

Condition

Overall in very good condition. Framed size: 230.8 x 165.1 cm; 90 7/8 x 65 in.
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Catalogue Note

I enjoy creating a sense of otherness in things that are familiar to us. I like to turn images into indescribable illusions by manipulating their familiar features to bring out their otherness quality and by transforming Yin and Yang. This reconstructs an order apart from the physical object. I am most attracted to the elements in an image that may exist, as opposed to those that do exist, and the information they may carry.

I believe this information constitutes the fundamentals of an object. The key is how we judge and understand this information, which determines whether we are able to make connections and adjustments between the visible world and the invisible world. —Liu Dan, 2012