Lot 1720: GUAN YONG

GUAN YONG
(B. 1975)
Do you Know? We are so distressed
oil on canvas, diptych
each: 200 x 170 cm. (78 3/4 x 67 in.);
overall: 200 x 340 cm. (78 3/4 x 133 7/8 in.)
Painted in 2007 (2)

The shelves are filled with books whose titles can be read even at a distance. In front of these shelves are several people of a particular social status, representing certain social group, staring straight at us. The penetrating, serious and firm gazes of their eyes seem to have reached the bottom of our inner world and started a dialogue with our souls. With an extended space, the painter leads visitors into its work in a clear, direct and planar way.