拍品 940
  • 940

Sui Jianguo

估價
1,200,000 - 1,800,000 HKD
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描述

  • Sui Jianguo
  • Legacy Mantles (set of five)
  • fibreglass with automotive paint
each signed in Pinyin and numbered 4/10, executed in 2006

來源

Private Collection, USA

出版

Mario Ciampi and Philip Tinari, Artists in China: Inside the Contemporary Studio, Thames and Hudson, London, UK, 2007, pp. 11, 12, 406 and cover

Condition

Orange jacket: On the bottom right-hand pocket, there is a chip measuring roughly 0.6 by 0.3 cm. Yellow jacket: Located on the underside of the left sleeve, there is a small area measuring 3.2 by 1 cm where the surface automotive paint is slightly uneven resulting in a minute area of paint loss that is barely visible and likely occurred during the drying process.
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拍品資料及來源

Several years ago, Sui Jianguo created his Legacy Mantles series, with the ambition of identifying the most significant China cultural icon of his time. This is a series of sculptures in the image of the "revolutionary" uniform made famous by Mao, and they are stiff shells of the jacket without the person inside. Sui saw in the jacket the representation of a new faceless power that broke free from China's traditional dynastic order.


- Excerpt from an essay titled "To Tame a Barbarian: Sui Jianguo's Clothes Vein Series", published in Chinese-art.com, Vol. 4, Issue 5, 2001. Essay by Chang Tsong-Zung.