Rouge Series: Mao With Turquoise Background

Name: LI SHAN (CHINA, B. 1942)
Brand: Rouge Series: Mao With Turquoise Background
Price: 80000.00 HKD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised HKD 100,000

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LI SHAN (CHINA, B. 1942)

Rouge Series: Mao With Turquoise Background

Price Realised HKD 100,000

LI SHAN (CHINA, B. 1942)
Rouge Series: Mao With Turquoise Background
signed in Chinese, signed and dated 'lishan 2005' (on the reverse)
acrylic and silkscreen collage on canvas
55.2 x 45.2 cm. (17 3/4 x 21 3/4 in.)
Executed in 2005

Acquired directly from artist by the present owner
Private Collection, New York, USA

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Considered to be one of the most important Chinese contemporary artists to emerge in the 1990s, Li Shan championed the aesthetic idiom of Political Pop. Throughout the many stylistic changes in his career, Rouge Series is considered to be the most iconic. Rouge Series: Mao in Turquoise Background appropriates the ubiquitous imagery of Mao Zedong with a distinctive taste of irony, bringing into play the taboo of sexuality in relation to politics. Li demonstrates an evocative clash between consumerism and Communism by presenting the leader’s instantly recognizable portrait with flamboyant coloring and a bright backdrop, thus blurring lines between power and sexuality.