Oil and acrylic on canvas

150×200 cm 59×78 3/4 in

Signed in English and dated on bottom centre

LITERATURE
2015, Alluvial—Huang Yuxing 2005-2015, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, p.113
EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION
26 Apr - 32Jun 2012， Huang Yuxing， Beijing Commune， Beijing
5 Sep - 4 Oct 2015， Alluvial—Huang Yuxing 2005-2015， Minsheng Art Museum， Shanghai

PROVENANCE
Private collection， AsiaHuang Yuxing was graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Art. Different from his most contemporaries who pursue the trend of idealism， he chooses the painting representation that focuses on the individual visual experience. As a representative artist born in the 1970s， Huang creates beyond the simple nostalgia of modernism， and further through personalized painting practice， touches upon and integrates the ready-made images， “objectifying his creative procedure”， experimenting on media， body politics， life sciences， Abstract Expressionism and other central arguments of the time. This has made his artworks in mysterious painting language and of intuitive sensory stimulation. His works are beloved and well received by collectors.
The work Trap was created in 2012， as one of the representative works in the “Bushes” series by the artist. In the artist’s stylistic trajectory， this work is a large scale work prominent in this period. It records Huang’s directional breakthroughs in myriad experiments on colors， geometric composition of cone shapes and the primary design of his oval icons. Compared with his early works in dark tones， the artist further tries on saturated colors to replace the monochrome black in the past. In the painting Trap， Huang uses florescent color to decorate the trees to create a huge cone-shaped construction. The colors and composition cut by geometric arrangements lead to considerable visual tension， to revoice the artist’s personal observation and experience of the world using his mind eye. Huang also pays attention to reserve the details during his creation. In the painting Trap， the traces and colors are aggregated， to produce an alluvial effect of repetitive wears and tears， and the organic heaviness of the painting itself. The energy built up on the canvas offers remedy for his life practice inexplicable by conceptual vocabulary.
In this phase of creation， by use of subject matter and space， the artist has controlled the tension in the painting， and made the symbolic faces in the past works into oval shapes of varied size， to form a new creative icon. “This kind of oval shape has direct connection with the previous human face.” In the work Trap， the artist highlights the “bushes” in icon shapes as the embodiment of nature， while the oval shape set in the front implies human’s footprint. This change has laid critical foundation for his consecutive classy series of “Rivers” and “Bubbles”.

Price estimate:
HKD: 280,000 – 380,000
USD: 35,900 – 48,700

Auction Result:
HKD: 472,000