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| Untitled, 1997 signed and dated 'Ye [in Pinyin and Chinese] 97' on the reverse acrylic and oil on canvas 90 x 90 cm. (35 3/8 x 35 3/8 in.) Executed in 1997. Courtesy of Phillips Estimate HK$2,500,000 - 4,000,000 €281,000-449,000 $321,000-513,000 - SOLD FOR HK$5,860,000 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, Phillips Hong Kong Auction 25 November 2018 |
Red serves as a colour that Liu returns to in memory of his childhood, where it was once the only choice of colour in a world of red leadership. Through his painting, the shade of red attains freedom.
Again, it is treated abstractly in the form of a stage curtain, becoming a bearer of meanings from a
wide sphere of time and space. Liu Ye conjures up dreams and carries viewers away from reality by setting by the scene upon a theater stage, which symbolizes an environment where Liu was closest in his early childhood days. It is not only the place where his father’s plays for children were performed, and was also used for red propaganda in the form of revolutionary operas or choir performances in a wider societal context.
Viewers can see a possibility of the artist’s self-discovery. By playing with the circular shape of the spotlight on the squared composition of the curtain, it creates spatial imagination, bearing resemblance to black-and-white silent films, where a blackout would appear, leaving the main character in focus.
Untitled is a far more playful rendition of the stage theme where a spotlight highlights two little cherubic toddlers, sunglasses in place, poking their heads out and mischievously sticking their tongues out; revealing a fragment of an outdoor scenery with a glimpse of blue and pink skies.
wide sphere of time and space. Liu Ye conjures up dreams and carries viewers away from reality by setting by the scene upon a theater stage, which symbolizes an environment where Liu was closest in his early childhood days. It is not only the place where his father’s plays for children were performed, and was also used for red propaganda in the form of revolutionary operas or choir performances in a wider societal context.
Viewers can see a possibility of the artist’s self-discovery. By playing with the circular shape of the spotlight on the squared composition of the curtain, it creates spatial imagination, bearing resemblance to black-and-white silent films, where a blackout would appear, leaving the main character in focus.
Untitled is a far more playful rendition of the stage theme where a spotlight highlights two little cherubic toddlers, sunglasses in place, poking their heads out and mischievously sticking their tongues out; revealing a fragment of an outdoor scenery with a glimpse of blue and pink skies.
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