August 2-August 4, "Yitiao Auction 2024 Spring Auction"The big deal is coming. This offline auction includes"Lichen Zisha and Tea Utensils Specialand“New Art” Contemporary Art and Antiques Sale.

Offline modern and contemporary art sessionsZhou Chunya, Zhang Enli, Wang Xingwei, Ding Yi, Qin Qi, Ma Ke, Ouyang Chun, Yang Bodu, Tsuguharu Foujita, Genevieve FiggisArtists such as Yang Guang and Wang Xueyan have carefully selected various fine works of art including oil paintings, acrylics, sculptures and other comprehensive materials to present the unique features of the development of modern and contemporary art from multiple angles.

The auction will be held on August 2-3Banquet Hall on the 7th floor of Hyatt Regency Shanghai Global HarborSpecial OfferOffline Preview, andAugust 4 (Sunday) 14:00holdZisha and teaware offline auction,August 4 (Sunday) 19:30holdModern and Contemporary Art and Antiques Offline Auction, collectors are welcome to visit the scene.

This time, we will focus on the auction listContemporary artists born and living in Shanghai, exploring how they, who live in this city, project the influence and shaping of this city on them in their creations.

Shanghai is one of the earliest ports opened in modern Chinese history. China's first art school in the modern sense, the first human body sketching, the first modern art society and the first national art exhibition all appeared here.

The multiple influences of the Shanghai School of Painting tradition, international art concepts, the city's modernization process and regional climatic characteristics have made the artists here present avant-garde and pioneering characteristics in their exploration of media, subject matter and form.

LOT 6038 Ding Yi Ten Signs 2017-B2

After the "85 Art New Wave", a series of modernist art exhibitions were held in Shanghai, forming an artistic activity group at the time, and a group of abstract artists with rising fame emerged. Ding Yi, who was born and raised in Shanghai, was one of the important representatives among them.

In 1993, his works and those of other artists were exhibited at the Venice Biennale, bringing Shanghai contemporary art to the international stage.

This work, Cross 2017-b2, is one of Ding Yi’s attempts to use acrylic woodcut on wood board after 2014, and was created in the same year as his important London exhibition Ding Yi. After more than ten years of fluorescent color, his creations returned to black and white, and through the subtle reaction between woodcut and painting, he achieved a significant development and transformation in his artistic practice.

Ding Yi once said: "Basswood responds most accurately to the force of carving, so this material is still used today." In this work, he buried multiple layers of black and white pigments on the basswood board, giving the overall work an abstract quality like ink painting.

At the same time, the core visual symbol of his creation - the "cross" and its deformed "X", in the entire vertical composition work, makes people think of the mystery of religion or the ancient art of inscriptions. It is highly rational and full of tension.
 

LOT 6053 Qu Fengguo "Four Seasons 2015 Midsummer"

Compared with Ding Yi's practice, Qu Fengguo, another representative Shanghai abstract painter, added consideration of the time dimension to his works based on abstraction and chose lines as his language.

He does not use conventional painting tools, but instead uses the movement of fingers, body and the natural movement of paint itself to complete the visual presentation of temporality.

This lot is from his "Four Seasons" series, which he started in 2005. When painting, he squeezed the paint onto the canvas one by one, scraped it off with a ruler, then squeezed more paint on, scraped it off again, and repeated this process over and over again, condensing time into infinitely spreading straight lines.
 

LOT 6041 Zhang Enli "Water Pipe"

Many contemporary artists came to Shanghai by chance and chose to settle here. The economic foundation and rapid urban development here provided them with inspiration and samples for their creations.

Zhang Enli was born in Jilin in the mid-1960s. In 1990, he was assigned to teach at Shanghai Textile University. At that time, he obtained a Shanghai hukou and quickly integrated into the Shanghai community. A few years later, he became an important and unique figure for Shanghai and contemporary art.

Internationally, he has taken up the banner of pioneering Shanghai artists. Since joining Hauser & Wirth in 2006 and becoming the first Asian artist to sign a contract, Zhang Enli’s market appeal has been growing day by day. In particular, the abstract expression series he began to create in early 2010, with its extremely concise still life language, allows everyday objects to reflect people’s living conditions and self-identity like a mirror.

The Water Pipe auctioned this time is one of the classic works in this series. The "leather pipe" has been separated from the daily use scenario, and the picture does not make people feel its functionality, presenting a unique abstract formal beauty.

In the four-meter-long painting, soft leather tubes are wound into circles at both ends, and the knots are intertwined and entangled, like the roots of an ancient tree. This scene is hard to see in real life, but it looks very natural in the painting. This is exactly the artist's attempt to use the gaps created by the structure of geometric deformations to explore the spiritual space of people in the modern world.

LOT 6022 Wang Xingwei "Hotel Room"

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Like Zhang Enli, another artist who came to Shanghai from Northeast China is Wang Xingwei. In 2022, the Shanghai Power Station of Art held an exhibition titled "Wang Xingwei in Shanghai 2002-2008", looking back on his "time in Shanghai".

During the six years in this city, the active art scene brought him freshness and excitement. At that time, he was in a huge energy field, creating with unrestrained passion and a mentality of not caring about gains and losses, with the simplicity, frankness and courage of that age and that era.

Created in 2003, "Hotel Room" belongs to Wang Xingwei's "Magic City" series, showing modern life with Shanghai as a sample.

He once said that the changes in landscape brought about by the rapid development of cities have brought excitement to people and society, but also caused anxiety.

The painting style is simple. Wang Xingwei chose the perspective of an entrance to show the whole room - the layout of the green double room in the express hotel. The objects and colors are reassuring, but the fashionable girl in the pink dress is sitting far away. The picture is humorous and ironic, but also dreamy.

LOT 6013 Lu Pingyuan《Look! I'm Picasso!》

Lu Pingyuan, an artist born in the 1980s, inherited the history of art and borrowed the theme of "Look! I'm Picasso!" to achieve a bolder transcendence.

His creative inspiration came from his love for Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story, and thus this series of paintings was born, which combines Picasso's Cubist works with Mr. Potato Head's flexible reorganization of facial features.

The composition and colors of this work are very eye-catching, with simple lines that smoothly outline the posture and facial features similar to Picasso's side-sitting female portrait.

Mr. Potato’s eyes and ears are “installed” three-dimensionally into the two-dimensional picture world, and the black shadows of his hands respectively present the shapes of playing with a mobile phone and making gestures, which also adds a touch of childishness, modernity and black humor to the whole.

LOT 6039 Zhou Chunya "Heavy Makeup and Light Makeup"

In addition to the city's sharp rhythm, Shanghai also has the gentleness of water and the sea. Inheriting the misty water town of Chen Yifei's early years, artists living in Shanghai have always been brilliant in depicting the moist atmosphere, and Zhou Chunya is an unavoidable name among them.

Zhou Chunya’s studio in Shanghai was completed more than a decade ago. He once said that Jiangnan was the source of his creative inspiration. Since 2012, he has started a series of creations around Shanghai’s Yu Garden. It was not until 2018 that he finally moved from Chengdu to Shanghai, and said that he had “returned to Jiangnan”.

In recent years, Zhou Chunya has been traveling around China's famous mountains and rivers. In the process of exploring the reality of traditional literati paintings, he created a series of landscape-themed works that bid farewell to the style of his representative works.

This painting, "Heavy Makeup and Light Makeup", created in 2020, is one of the highlight lots in this auction. It adheres to the rules and forms of traditional painting in framing and composition. The gorgeous flowing colors and cheerful and unrestrained brushstrokes express the artificial garden scenery. The lake and mountains in early spring reveal a clear vitality under the peach blossoms, showing the artist's yearning for the natural and historical landscape in modern urban life in Shanghai.

He uses the "green landscape" of Song Dynasty paintings to express the poetic sentiment of "heavy makeup and light smears", combines it with the "collage" of Western postmodern fragments, transcends the ordinary painting language, and completes the artistic technique between real generation and imagery, which echoes the direction of contemporary aesthetics.

LOT 6024   Wang Yi, "Glacier"

Wang Yi was born in Shanghai in 1984. After graduating from the New York Academy of Art with a master's degree in painting, he returned to his hometown to live and work. His works naturally linger with the unique temperament of the city's water spirit, which is either hazy or light, healing.

Born in the academic school, he has been trained in realistic painting for a long time, copying and understanding the techniques of European classic paintings, which has formed his excellent ability to grasp shapes. His works are concerned with the ontological issues of painting, and he always maintains the clarity and calmness of an outsider in his creation, penetrating the appearance and reaching the essence.

In order to find a breakthrough in his creation, Wang Yi uses travel as a way to draw inspiration from the process. When traveling, he does not take photos to record, but relies on his senses to experience, and then recalls the details and feelings when creating.

He said: "The scenes, events and people that come to mind from this kind of memories are all exciting points of my travel memories, and they also become my creative inspiration."

"Glacier" was created in 2018. During this period, Wang Yi, who had just returned from the United States, described his state as "day and night are reversed, and thoughts are jumping." The work shows obvious imagery and narrative.

He combined the real scenery he saw during his travels with his inner world full of ideals and imagination, and used soft colors and light brushstrokes to construct a world that is real yet abstract, relaxed and otherworldly.

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August 2-4, a "2024 Spring Auction”

Buyer's premium is 15%
 

Place:Hyatt Regency Shanghai Global Harbor 7th Floor Ballroom

No. 718 Ningxia Road, Putuo District, Shanghai
 

"Lichen" purple sand and tea utensils special

time:August 4 (Sunday) 14:00
 

“New Art” Contemporary Art and Antiques Sale

time:August 4 (Sunday) 19:30

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