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李真 LI Chen (Taiwanese, b. 1963)

Sold for NT$6,500,000 at Ravenel on Dec 5, 2021.

Li Chen, Pure Land, dark sculpture of a reclining human figure on a textured base

Lot description

無憂國土 Pure Land Engraved Li Chen in English and Chinese, numbered 5/8, dated 1998 簽名雕刻:LiChan 5/8 (臀部),李真 1998 (底座) 李真涉略佛道學等經典、物外尋真,在藝術作品 的追求上,是以雕塑來傳達東方文化的精神與內 涵。李真以「虛空」為其重要的創作美學概念, 「空」與「虛」是中國文化中佛學及道學的重要 思想,佛學中的「空」並不是代表沒有,而是代 表一個巨大寂靜的生滅智慧境界,在道家思想有 兩句話:「虛空粉碎,大地平沉」,就是描述一 個破與靜的極點狀態,在「易」之中求道。李真 的雕塑是在探討虛空的能量,但他所表現出的雕 塑實體,卻是空於外,道氣入內而充塞,一點也 不空,原因是李真再現能量是以一種精神的形 式,用誇張、通體漆黑的實體來表現攝人的物質 精神,但雕塑所傳達確是甜美、浪漫、喜悅與滿 足的精神概念,正因如此,即便他的部分作品巨 大無比,但卻不顯壓迫笨重,似漂浮於空中,令 人有「既重又輕」的感覺,這正是精神能量與物 質能量完美的結合所致。不但如此,李真竟能突 破千年佛教雕塑既有的形式藩籬,轉化唐代佛教 造像的豐厚飽滿,以及宋代俊美秀麗的精神暨形 象特質,將雕塑的開臉與線條減至極簡,並且萃 取中國五千年歷史文化的元素,如中國的仙、 佛、龍、神話、民間故事等,更進一步注入當代 藝術的元素及物件,成功的結合古典與當代,使 其作品呈現一種前所未見的獨特型態及樣貌,賦 予東方雕塑新的生命。 Owing to Li Chen’s rebirth of energy in a spiritual form, the sculpture is highlighted in an exaggerated and lacquered black object to display a sweet, romantic, joyful, and satisfactory spiritual concept. Hence, despite Li’s art is in gigantic form, but never heavy but flowing in the sky to transmit a “heavy and light” feeling, and a perfect fusion of spiritual energy and material energy. Li Chen’s art, determined to break from the traditional thousand-year religious Buddhist formality of its structures, results in transforming Tang Dynasty’s Buddhist round and complete figurative sculpture and the Song Dynasty’s beautiful spirit and unique characteristics into simplistic sculpture’s smiling face and lines. In addition, Li obtains the cultural elements from the 5000 years of Chinese history, such as spirits, Buddha, dragon, fables, and legends, blending contemporary artistic elements and materials into fusion of tradition and modernity. Hence, Li’s work displays an unprecedented unique style and panorama to endow the Eastern sculpture with a new life.

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