QUAN Chang (1975) The Era of the Giant Baby,... - Lot 216 - Magnin Wedry

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QUAN Chang (1975) The Era of the Giant Baby,... - Lot 216 - Magnin Wedry
QUAN Chang (1975) The Era of the Giant Baby, 2018. Signed, dated and numbered 1 / 10. 100 x 68 cm "The Era of the Giant Baby" is Chang Quan's most famous work. In a supposedly humanist culture, but ultimately attached to slavery, the artist denounces the condition of men who have become objects, filled with servility. Our flesh, mind and soul are poisoned, we transform ourselves and become human beings who have gradually lost the ability to think and the value of living. We live like a giant baby, we inhabit the absurd. 88 A pioneer of modern art, Cheong Soo Pieng (1917 - 1983) was a decisive artist in the construction of the post-war movement in Singapore. In 1933, he joined the Xiamen Academy of Fine Arts, then the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, which was disrupted in 1938 due to the destruction of the building during the Sino-Japanese conflict. After several years between Hong Kong and Macao, he finally returned to Singapore and found a professorship at Nanyang University between 1947 and 1961. The Nanyang style, which he represented with a generation of students such as Chen Chong Swee and Chen Wen Hsi, is a brilliant synthesis between Western and Eastern painting movements, mixing influences of Post-Impressionism with Chinese calligraphy. Cheong Son Pieng retranscribes scenes from everyday life, from tribes such as the Kayan or the Balinese, in elegant stylised characters, with eyes and bodies finely elongated, highlighting a modest and deep interiority. A trip to Europe between 1961 and 1963 brought the painter a new reflection on the artistic revolutions that overturned the post-war continent. Cheong Son Pieng approaches and discovers, but above all experiments in these years lyrical abstraction through cubism and fauvism. In this 1962 work, the artist deploys a vibrant palette that mixes Chinese ink with oil, in a semi-abstraction that is once again a synthesis of two different artistic foci. I do not consciously seek it (the style) and I do not deliberately
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