Yue Minjun - New Now & Design Hong Kong Sunday, November 26, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Scheveningen, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Xianfeng! Chinese Avant-garde Sculpture, 2005 (another example exhibited)
    Herford, Museum fur zeitgenossische Kunst und Design, Loss of Control, 2008 (another example exhibited)

  • Catalogue Essay

    As part of 5 unique sets of sculptures that the artist created, the present lot is part of the group entitled Contemporary Terracotta Warriors No. 5. Yue Minjun created five of these sets of unique sculptures, each comprising 25 warriors with a different stylistic rendering of the arms: some with their arms crossed in front of their bodies, some with their hands over their ears and, in this instance, with their arms raised. The artist wittily injects contemporaneity through his reinterpretation of the historical terracotta warriors found in the tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi, one of China’s most influential emperors. Yue Minjun creates each of his warriors to be identical in order not to exhibit individualism, boldly critiquing the numbing similitude that plagues current society in the modern age.

Ж64

Contemporary Terracotta Warriors No.5

signed, numbered and dated 'yue minjun 5 23/25 2003' on the reverse
acrylic on fibreglass and reinforced plastic with iron base
188 x 91 x 44 cm. (74 x 35 7/8 x 17 3/8 in.)
Executed in 2003, this work is number 23 from an edition of 25.

Estimate
HK$200,000 - 300,000 
€23,600-35,500
$25,600-38,500

Contact Specialist

Angela Tian
Associate Specialist, Head of New Now & Design Sale
20th Century & Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
+852 2318 2058
AngelaTian@phillips.com

New Now & Design

Hong Kong Auction 26 November 2023