Night Banquet

Details

OUYANG CHUN (B. 1974)
Night Banquet
signed in Chinese and dated '2008' (lower left of the first panel); signed, inscribed, and titled in Chinese; inscribed and dated '2008 160 x 105cm x3' (on the reverse of the second panel)
oil on canvas (triptych)
overall: 160 x 315 cm. (63 x 124 in.)
each: 160 x 105 cm. (63 x 41 3⁄8 in.) (3)
Painted in 2008

Provenance

Galerie 20.21, Essen
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011

Literature

M. Brehm (ed.), Ouyang Chun: Painting the King, Timezone 8, Hong Kong, 2010 (details illustrated, p. 29 & 128-129; illustrated, p. 130-131; mentioned, p. 32 & 50; listed, p. 53).

Exhibited

Berlin, me Collectors Room, Ouyang Chun: Painting the King, 2 October 2010 - 9 January 2011. This exhibition later travelled to Belvedere Museum, Vienna, 2 March-12 June 2011.

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Lot Essay

“In these works by Ouyang Chun, ‘the king is dead, long live the king’ finds a very particular echo. The king stands as a symbol for the eternal recurrence of experiences of victory and defeat of power and powerlessness. What is, however, decisive is painting: it is what lends to timelessness any existence in the present.” – Dr. Margrit Brehm (curator of Ouyang Chun: Painting the King)

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