Wang Guangyi at Borobudur's Spring Auction 2008, Singapore, May 17 & 18

Description:

After an impressive auction held October last year in Singapore, Borobudur promises to be an 'extravaganza' of note among art lovers and connoisseurs. They will be featuring 250 pieces of Asian Contemporary and Modern Art which include works from Liu Ye, Zeng Fanzhi, Wang Guangyi, Ye Yong Qing and Kim Dong-Yoo. There will also be 250 artworks from Southeast Asian Contemporary and Modern Art, which include artists like Handiwirman Sahputra, I Nyoman Masriadi, Agus Suwage, Rudi Mantofani and Putu Sutawijaya.

This piece by Wang Guangyi will go under-the-hammer and is estimated to fetch SGD 300,000 - 400,000. The artist was born in Harbin, China in 1957. He is the leading artist of the post-1989 art movement known as Political Pop. Guangyi's style of painting combines Cultural Revolution icons with imagery from propaganda and advertising, leveling the difference between two forms of culture. Wang takes aim at the state-controlled art-making practice enforced in China during the 1950s through the late 1970s. While at the same time bringing inspiration from the paintings of Pop art masters into his work.

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