Stainless steel, titanium plating sculpture Edition: A.P.

95 × 115 × 24 cm. 37 3/8 × 45 1/4 × 9 1/2 in.

Signed in Chinese, printed with number, date and title in English on the metallic tag at the tail
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Asia

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Taipei Soka Art and signed by the artist

The Lion Spreads Its Wings and Jumps to the Sky
Hsi Shih-Pin's Innovation and Imagination

Hsi Shih-Pin is an outstanding Taiwanese contemporary artist who has received international attention in recent years. He is known for his stainless steel and coated composite media which creates and integrate contemporary daily life, as well as the elegantly fined sculptures that invoke Western mythology. In 2007, he obtained a master's degree from the Institute of Formal Art, National Taipei University of the Arts. In 2011, he was invited by Hermes to exhibit the “Horse Drama” series of works in its various spaces. In 2014, he held a large-scale solo exhibition “The Palace of Memory” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, and was selected as the topic figure of the year by VOGUE magazine.
So far, he has appeared in Basel, Hong Kong for 6 consecutive years and has received enthusiastic responses. His works have been collected by Taiwan National Culture and Art Foundation, Kaohsiung Museum of Art, Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Ferrari, the well-known Paris Peninsula Hotel, Suzhou Intercontinental Hotel, etc.

The Surging Kinetic Energy of Life: the Dance of Dreams and History

For Hsi Shih-Pin, Venice was the dream place of his youth. The romance from the glorious classical era and the imagination of art were deeply imprinted in his mind, and the patron saint of Venice “San Marco Flying Lion” became a precious symbol of ideals and memories of the artist. It is presented in Venice the Dreamland, which is on this auction. In the eyes of the Venetians, the flying lion on the “Gospel of Mark” symbolizes the “resurrection of strength, courage and life.” And Hsi Shih-Pin inherited the symbolic meaning of the fierce and rebirth of the flying lion, using layered, reflective stainless steel and coated metal to build a linked form of the lion's wings and flying, such as the infinite variability of futuristic art, showing the nirvana flying majesty and constituting a dialogue with history in image.

The Fantastic Multidimensional Space: Deconstruction and Regeneration of Construction

Hsi Shih-Pin, who has a background in architectural design, chooses to start from his memory, taking the iron window grilles, temple carvings, and ancient key patterns of old Taiwan apartments as materials. Through decomposition, hollowing, and reorganization, the objects are reproduced in geometric shapes. In this work, hundreds of complex parts are neatly cut and spliced to present the majestic spirit of the beast. The form has the mystery of Western mythology, but the details blend the artist's Eastern memory, presenting both traditions, presenting the multiplicity of contemporary, east and west.

Through the mirrored metal material and complex cross-sectional composition, the works are more visually fragmented, breaking the integrity of the original objects, promoting the birth of invisible space and imagination, and presenting the multi-faceted world in the eyes of Shih-Pin. With Hsi's multidimensional lines and volumes, he integrates contemporary concepts into the metaphors and imaginations of the lion myth. Together with the artistic sentiments he placed on the lion myth, he casts his unique artistic aesthetics!

Price estimate:
HKD: 120,000 – 180,000
USD: 15,500 – 23,200

Auction Result:
HKD: 188,800