Mixed media on canvas

200 x 180 cm.78 3/4 x 70 7/8 in.

Signed in Chinese and dated on the reverse

EXHIBITED Shopping Gallery，Shanghai，China，Polar Night：Yuan Yuan’s Solo Exhibition，7 September-11 October，2009.

Yuan Yuan b.1973

Yuan Yuan’s works always reflect a sense of enclosure in an orderly structure in all subject matters. Whether he depicts an old-style house in the neo-classical style，a quite storeroom in a twisted shape or an empty meeting room，the feeling of solemnness and tranquilness reveal through his works. It seems that the subject matters does not play a significant role in his work because each subject matter，through Yuan’s view，conveys the same story of stillness in the same fashion of the structural order. This piece，“Build a Train”，depicting a scene of a diminished train factory，a distinctive piece from his early stage，was displayed in his exhibition “Polar Night：Yuan Yuan’s solo exhibition”. His artistic style makes him surpass his fellow young artists and welcomed by both local and international collectors.

Yuan is keen on depicting a place with the repetitive use of squares，shapes and lines. Not only does he skillfully deploy little colour contrast to the rendering of light，but he also focuses on rendering the magnificent details. Having said that，“Build a Train” is the perfect example reflecting the sophisticated composition Yuan has been working on. Transforming a decadent city and a dilapidated setting into images inevitably，the turpitude，whether inside or outside of the realm，is embedded between the visual art form and physical forms. Yuan tries to express this unique visual sensory with the techniques，similar to what the mathematical logics do，which requires the accuracy of calculation on the works. With its sophisticated orderly structure，the artworks accommodate the elements of instability and fragility. It also blends with lots of different components in his rendering，and the uncontrolled one usually grows unexpectedly and brings out an original artistic conceptions.Yuan emphasis two elements in the maximalism style，the texture of the architectural materials and the structure of the space. These two are not only his main subject matters but also represent the artist’s aesthetics pursuit of pictorial and forms.

Price estimate:
HKD：680,000 - 880,000
USD：87,720 - 113,500

Auction Result:
HKD : 967,600