Wang Guangyi - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Private collection, New York

  • Catalogue Essay

    In the field of Chinese contemporary art, Wang Guangyi’s works have held a very unique position, deriving from their common characteristic of being composed of inherently contradictory elements. Although the works of his famous Great Criticism Series no longer have the same kind of visual shock value they once had, there is no denying that these images—or to be more precise, the artist’s treatment of these images— have accurately expressed the most conflicting and contradictory experiences of our age, traveling the trajectory from blind faith to angry deconstruction, from the grandeur of heroism to the gimmickry of consumerism. Wang has continuously created one visual riddle after another; at the same time destroying each riddle before people are quite able to get to the bottom of it. As far as art history goes, he can be placed among that category of artists who are both powerful and inscrutable. Z. Huang, Wang Guangyi, 2004, at www.hanart.com

75

Time Warner

2005
Oil and silkscreen on canvas.
59 x 47 1/4 in. (149.9 x 120 cm).
Signed and dated “2005 Wang Guangyi [in Chinese and English]” on the reverse.

Estimate
$100,000 - 150,000 

Sold for $217,000

Contemporary Art Part I

15 Nov 2007, 7pm
New York