Pan Dehai

Lot 173: *PAN, DE HAI (Jilin 1956) Untitled. Oil on canvas. 48 x 64 cm.

Name: *PAN, DE HAI (Jilin 1956) Untitled. Oil on canvas. 48 x 64 cm.
Brand: Koller Auctions
SKU: cz4j452bht

Est: CHF 9,000 - CHF 13,000Sold:

Koller AuctionsZurich, SwitzerlandJune 23, 2007

Item Overview

Description

PAN, DE HAI
(Jilin 1956)
Untitled.
Oil on canvas. 2001. Signed.
48 x 64 cm.

Artist or Maker

Pan Dehai

Notes

Pan Dehai is a representative artist of contemporary representationism.
Although Pan''s paintings feature cherubic
figures, they manage to elude the grim label of ''cute'' art.
Instead, the paintings exhibit a sinister humor brought
about by the serial pixilation that serves and paintings'' building
blocks. This repetitive pattern is often echoed in the
composition itself. The inflated figures occupy the canvas
like some highly disciplined cloned army. Pan said ''I want to
focus on the subject of obesity, a common phenomenon in
modern society and a product of modernization. Obesity is
the most obvious embodiment of the problems of urban
living……Obesity is aggressive and possessive. It comes from
increasing gluttony. Obesity is a most vivid and symbolic
state.''
Pan''s choice of colours – the electric blues, the vivid pinks,
the grays of immense variety – inject an additional sense of
surreal eeriness into these unsettlingly magnetic, subtly
paranoid paintings.

Auction Details

Juni 2007

Koller Auctions

June 23, 2007, 10:00 AM EST

Hardturmstrasse 102, Zurich, 8031, CH

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