Pencil on paper

58 x 77 cm. 22 7/8 x 30 3/8 in.

Exhibited：
Eslite Gallery， Taipei， Taiwan， If it be Your Will that I speak No More， 30 December 2016 - 5 Febuary 2017.

“I found myself on sketch paper. There is nothing else. What I have created is already here. “itself” means the reality itself， and it also means art itself here.
Although you cannot see anything out of the sktech paper The art and the reality could live in same moment. And travel back and forth between the reality and our imagination.”
---Lai Chih-sheng
As the young generation of Taiwan Artists， although Lai Chih-Sheng graduated from National Tainan University of Art， he has been working as a cementer previously. Thus， he has a very unique sensibility toward space and texture. He found similarities between cement and drawing， and developed his style based on that. In 1996， he created his art work based on ceramic tiles in an abandoned spinning factories， ha named this work “perpendicular”. In 2011， he sketched lines upon an entire gallery. In 2012， he participated in an exhibition of Hayworth Art Museum， London， using pencil to sketch the wall， the ceiling and the ceramic tiles of the museum. It took five people twelve working days to finish it. Thus， he developed his whole “sketching series” by sketching on the edge of the paper. This idea touched collector Yao Qian from Taiwan. Yao Qian described him ：”All of his works are using subtraction， and eventually became poems to audience silently.”
Drawing paper 20160205 is a 2016 year work of Lai Chi-Sheng. Artist using blank vividly expressed two main ideas “itself” and the “action. As the artist said， “sketching paper” is to express the art expression itself. In other way， artist has to face the reality ex express art in an explicit way. The Blank and sketched edges reflects the inspiration of the artist， to help him focus on the art itself with a blank in reality life.

Price estimate:
HKD： 35,000 - 55,000
USD： 4,500 - 7,100

Auction Result:
HKD: 41,300