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Lot Essay
Wang Qingsong depicts the contradictions that exist in Chinese contemporary society. With his monumental staged photographs, he wittily represents a transformed, globalized China and all its social, economic and cultural tensions.
Romantique makes the viewer enter what looks like both the Western representation of heaven and a Chinese garden. The photograph includes a Chinese Buddha and men posing as famous works by Botticelli, Raphael, and Matisse. The fake plastic green leaves in the background hint at the artificiality of this confusing grouping of Western and Chinese elements. Hence, this work highlights the chaotic and ambiguous results of China’s embrace of Western culture.
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Please note, this work is oversize. The work is not framed but is mounted on foam board and a metal frame. There is a crease and slightly raised area near the upper right corner. There are a few areas on the upper and lower edge where the edge of the work is slightly pressed. There are a few small raised bumps left of center (1/3 and 1/4 from the left edge). There is a minute dark mark one third from the left side close to the top edge. There are faint scratches close to the top edge in the center of the work, visible under raking light. There is a dark minute accretion in the center of the work. There is a small area in which the surface of the work is distorted one third of the way in from the right side.
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Lot 7016Sale 15077
RomantiqueWANG QINGSONG (CHINA, B. 1966)Estimate: USD 15,000 - 20,000
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