SHI JIANMIN

SUCKLING PIGLETS FEEDING FROM THE CORNUCOPIA OF NATURE'S ETERNAL WELLSPRING, 2007

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SHI JIANMIN
SUCKLING PIGLETS FEEDING FROM THE CORNUCOPIA OF NATURE'S ETERNAL WELLSPRING, 2007
number one from an edition of eight and four artist's proofs, patinated copper, comprising of table and six stools, the table set with bowl and egg
table 34½ in (87.6 cm.) high; 96 in. (244 cm.) wide; 44 in. (111.7 cm.)
engraved signature and numbered 1/8 (9)

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Lot Essay

Referencing Taoist poetry and informed by classical Chinese garden stone work, this uniquely expressive design was conceived for the China Chair Project, 2007-2008. By exposing the friction between the natural and the synthetic, the ancient and the modern, the suite offers the spectator a distinctly non-Western interpretation of both structure and aesthetics, yielding an elegant contribution towards the narrative of design into the twenty-first century.

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