The first sale of Asian contemporary art at Sotheby's New York in 2006
The single photo "Big Bang-Bundling the Lost Souls" was sold for US$30,000 at the first sale of Sotheby's New York in 2006 The first Asian contemporary art auction set a record among the top six Chinese in the world.
China Guardian Autumn Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting Sale 2007
The contemporary ink painting "Spring in Brooklyn" was sold for US$17,209 at China Guardian International Auction Co., Ltd.'s Autumn Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting Sale 2007 .
China Guardian Autumn Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting Special Autumn 2011
The contemporary ink painting "Misty Rain-Square" was sold for US$22,425 at the China Guardian International Auction Co., Ltd. Autumn Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting Special Auction 2011 .
Hong Kong Sotheby's Healthy Air Charity Auction
The ink painting "Birds Over Tiananmen" by the famous American artist Zheng Lianjie will be held in Hall 5 of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on April 4, 2011 Held
"Birds Over Tiananmen" was created in 2007 and is one of the important series of contemporary ink paintings by Zheng Lianjie "Tiananmen". Zheng Lianjie, an independent artist currently working and living in New York and Beijing, is one of the most representative international artists in contemporary China. He was the first artist to use the body to create performance art combined with geographical environment. He participated in the New Culture Group in Beijing's Yuanmingyuan Artist Village in the late 1980s, which was famous for criticizing and subverting conservative visual art language and pursuing an independent personal artistic style. As a contemporary artist, he uses the following creative methods: performance, photography, video, installation, ink painting, calligraphy, public art, etc. The most shocking representative work of Chinese contemporary art, the Great Wall series "Big Bang - Binding the Lost Soul" was created by him in 1993. The work integrates landscape, performance, installation and video. It promoted and influenced the 90s The development of Chinese contemporary art in the 1990s is of profound historical significance. The "Tiananmen" ink series that Zheng Lianjie created in 1989 is an important work in his early artistic career. The artist is constantly deconstructing this deified historical building, and at the same time, he is using ink to intervene in reality in terms of subject matter. "There is always a true history in my youthful memory that I cannot forget." Political symbolization is a kind of confusion and sensitivity of artists in creation. When confused by the unacceptable memory and behavior, when normal logical thinking cannot or cannot explain events and behaviors, sensitivity gives the artist the most direct, vivid and current creative motivation - symbolization! Through it, artists interpret events and behaviors in real time and in the context of artistic expression. Since then, it is not difficult for us to understand why Zheng Lianjie has repeated this theme - Tiananmen Square series for more than 20 years from the 1980s to the present. "Birds Over Tiananmen" was painted in 2007. The background dripping with gray acrylic and ink drops, the illusory and deformed Tiananmen Tower, the rising bubbles, the bird symbolizing life and soul... The moment history happened, it was destined to be irreversible. Symbols serve as carriers to reveal everything in the artist’s memory of that summer! Perhaps it was the lingering anger of more than twenty years that made him paint the Tiananmen Square series indifferently for many years. The aesthetics of traditional ink and wash seems to have restricted the development of ink and wash art. The rigid and eternal style makes this art form out of touch with the times and cannot be used as an artistic language to interpret the context of the times. Metaphysical beauty makes her lack understanding of the present. The experimental ink painting that emerged in the 1980s is a revolution and improvement of traditional ink painting.
Using ink to express the present and immediate creative form, Zheng Lianjie had already tried his gray themes and outdoor ink performance creations in the mid-to-late 1980s, such as "To commemorate the two Germanys" started in 1989 "Unification" Great Wall rubbing series. During that period, his creations were full of expressions of the present and immediate, abstract elves, jumping lines and colors, and exaggerated backgrounds. Time is like a sharp note, and space is squeezed into a heavier ink block by the ink block. He broke with conventions, ignored ancient laws, and used ink to write a book to relieve the trembling of his soul and his indignation against existence! The sensitivity in his heart prevents him from ignoring reality - ideals and passions, gray ideologies and numbness due to lack of faith, like a polluted sky. As a pioneer of contemporary ink concepts, Zheng Lianjie is good at creating a personalized experimental style. The subtle description of the soul has become a possibility of surprise in his pen. The pen and ink moving forward in loneliness show his shock to the soul again and again. .
"In today's landscapes, you can no longer find the people of Jin Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period who 'moved their clothes for thousands of hills, and their feet flowed for thousands of miles'!" "So, I want to give my ink painting a kind of cry! Instead of a small bridge and flowing water. Moaning." This conversation may be more representative of his idealistic passion during that period, and why Zheng Lianjie used a pair of true eyes to examine the innate and inseparable mother tongue culture. Childhood and youth are sometimes the best representation of how we perceive things deep in our hearts. It has the original sincerity of human nature - that of a child and that of an artist! The Healthy Air Auction is the first environmental art-themed auction in Asia. It is also a fundraising event conducted by the Healthy Air Action (CAN) with the assistance of Sotheby's Auction House and Ruiyi Investment Consultants (Hong Kong) Limited.
This auction has three purposes:
To raise funds for CAN education and research projects
To disseminate information about the impact of air pollution on health to the public, and to unite all Top artists who regard Hong Kong as their home and take environmental protection as the theme of their creations
Reflecting the growing influence of environmental themes in art and culture
The auction belongs to Sotheby's 2011 Hong Kong Contemporary Asia One of the art spring auction items will be held on April 4 in Hall 5 of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.
Some top local artists have specially created works for this auction. You can browse detailed introductions to the auction items, interviews and biographies of participating artists and sponsors on this website.
Healthy Air Action is a non-profit organization promoting the improvement of air quality in Hong Kong. It is committed to educating and encouraging the public to understand the impact of air on their health.