Sui Jianguo - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York

  • Exhibited


    San Francisco, Asian Art Museum, Sui Jianguo: The Sleep of Reason, January -
    April, 2005 (another example exhibited); Tampere, Tampere Art Museum, Metamorphosis: The
    Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, June 16 - September 30, 2007
    (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    J. Hamlin, “Chinese Artist Sui Jianguo puts Mao to rest in colorful metaphor,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 16, 2005 (illustrated); S. Mizota, “Socialist Pop,” SF Weekly, March 30, 2005;

  • Catalogue Essay


    Sui Jianguo, the contemporary Chinese sculptor, is renowned for his slickly
    alluring sculptures that rework icons of Chinese power in bright plastic
    hues commonly associated with consumerism and mass production. In the
    present lot from the acclaimed Legacy Mantle series, Sui riffs on the Mao
    suit which was ubiquitous among Chinese citizens during the Cultural
    Revolution and, today, still retains symbolic associations with that period.
    The suit—usually perceived as a drab, gray proletarian item of basic
    clothing—is transformed into a luxurious array of larger-than-life multiples,
    colored in shiny hues more common on jelly beans and racing cars. Like
    many other Chinese artists, Sui is concerned with the effects of rampant
    consumerism on a previously sheltered socialist culture; unlike others, his
    tongue-in-cheek depiction of this ongoing phenomenon accomplishes the
    rare feat of imparting irony without excessive judgment.

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Legacy Mantle

2005

Fiberglass with automotive paint (in five parts).

24 1/2 x 19 x 12 in. (62.2 x 48.3 x 30.5 cm)each.

Signed “Sui Jianguo” [in Chinese] and numbered of 10 on the interior of sculpture.  This work is from an edition of 10.

Estimate
$120,000 - 180,000 

Sold for $217,000

Contemporary Art Part I

15 Nov 2007, 7pm
New York