1966
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2007 Mixed media on board 150 x 120 cm Signed lower right Huang Gang in Chinese and English, dated 2007 |
Estimate
500,000 - 950,000 118,000 - 224,200 15,100 - 28,800
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Sold Price
3,068,000 740,526 95,088
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Huang Gang makes use of traditional Chinese lacquer painting skill to display the abstract "spirit of strokes" and of the combination of free, fluent, enthusiastic and individualized lines and inscription rubbing to form the paintings implicating contrast and balance, and dynamic within static. His works do not show the forthright and furious emotional catharsis in western expressionist arts, but a harmonious composition form with an intrinsic logicality as well as an uninhibited and poetic enthusiasm.
"1966" the artist takes ancient Chinese woodcarving characters as a background. Age-old and dainty Chinese characters are the carrier and spirit of Chinese literature, embodying a king of elegant order, logos as well as cultural inheritance, and that red presenting zest and strength, so the artist strives to search after the themes of culture and revolution with red and black, two simple colors but with strong symbolism, to fully embody the aloof and serene artistic conception through the structure of the painting, tempo of the lines movement and strength and speed of the strokes.
From 2002 up till now, Huang Gang has launched individual exhibitions in succession in more than 30 countries and regions like America, France, German and etc. and entered into Western mainstream artistic market and won great favor in the markets at home and abroad.