Lot 28: Yu Hong (B. 1966) Yu Hong 10 Years Old

Yu Hong (B. 1966)
Yu Hong 10 Years Old
2002

signed and dated 2002 on the lower right
watercolour and pastel on paper

86 x 68 cm (33 7/8 x 26 3/4 in)
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Provenance
Michael Goedhuis, LondonAcquired from the above by the present owner
喻红
喻红十歲水彩 粉彩 紙本2002年作
簽名: H.Yu 2002（右下）
來源
倫敦Michael Goedhuis畫廊現藏家得自上述來源
Yu Hong is a rare sensation of a portrait painter in the world of Chinese contemporary art, who possesses the ability to merge poetic sentiments and contemporary significances in her daily life. Solid and effortless painting skills as well as extremely sensitive capture of the charm of characters have made Yu one of the leading Chinese contemporary female artists. Motherhood is undoubtedly one of the most important milestones in her life. For Yu, who is delicate in emotions, all kinds of feelings and reflections on life were aroused throughout the stages of nurturing a new life, which prompted her to create the Witness to Growth series. After the birth of her daughter, Yu found that she was very similar to her daughter when she was a child, but there was a huge difference in the backgrounds of the two. Yu used then-taken photographs from the year she was born as references and reinterpreted them, simultaneously enlarging and outputting the news photographs found in media in units of years. Since the birth of her daughter, she has added the record of her daughter's daily life, making the series a total of 40 gropus of work in an autobiographical style. Yu uses her personal life from birth to the present to profile the grand background of social changes, interpreting the living conditions and essence of a generation with personal memories and experiences that are full of affection. Yu once said in an interview, 'In my life, I found a lot of things that overwhelm my heart and yet can hardly be expressed through words. These are stories about kindness of human, barriers, speculation, love...... Everyone is driven by these sentiments; life stories are then being unfold. They became the subject of my work.'
在中國當代藝壇中，喻紅是不可多得的能夠在生活中尋找詩意與時代意義的肖像畫家。紮實的繪畫技藝、收放自如的輕鬆筆調、對人物神韻極為敏感的捕捉，使喻紅成為當代女藝術家中的翹楚之一。生兒育女無疑是人生其中一項重要里程，對情感細膩的喻紅而言更是激起對生命的各種感觸與省思，從而刺激她創作出「目擊成長」系列。在女兒出生之後，喻紅發現自己小時候與女兒極為相像，但二人的出生背景卻存在巨大差異。喻紅透過繪畫從自己出生那一年起每年的一張照片，同&#... For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website