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48 黃宇興 b.1975 Huang Yuxing

ೌִ݁˴່٫ٙɓϣဎݴ A Drift of an Anarchist
Ꮐдɢ੹ ೥̺ Acrylic on canvas
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ɚ㖼ɓɞϋЪ 145 x 230 cm. 57 /8 × 90 /2 in.
Painted in 2018
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Huang Yuxing 2018€̛ɨ Signed in pinyin and dated on bottom
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̈و LITERATURE
2018 ϋdՊᔛʦᖵஔʞ˜໮‘dՊᔛᖵஔd̨ 2018, Artco Monthly May Issue, Artco
̏dୋ 106 ࠫ Books, Taipei, p.106
࢝ᚎ EXHIBITED
2018 ϋ 4 ˜ 14 ˚Ї 5 ˜ 13 ˚d˜රږʘ਷{{ 14 Apr – 13 May 2018, Kingdom of Gold –
රρጳࡈ࢝™dͣͩ೥఼d̨̏ Huang Yuxing Solo Exhibition, Whitestone රρጳց٤‘dذ੹eᏀдɢ੹೥̺d85 x 86 cmd
Gallery, Taipei 2016 ϋЪdשርϓʹᄆ 3,040,000 ʩಥ࿆
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̨̏ͣͩ೥఼ PROVENANCE
ԭݲࠠࠅӷɛϗᔛ Whitestone Gallery, Taipei
Important Private Collection, Asia
HKD 2,800,000 – 3,800,000
USD 359,000 – 487,200

The “river” below is made up of geometric crystals beyond our vision from a micro perspective. In the environment of
with smooth curves, exhibiting a strong sense of structure. It can the matrix where is full of chaos, human consciousness is being
be certain types of highly-evolved future machines, crowded formed slowly {{ despite the disordering and complicity of the
stars in the dark universe, or jewels given birth by the ever-lasting river, it nourishes life in her silence until human come into the
ages. The artist divides this part from the blue and purple areas of world. In this pandemonium, time flies and far-away bushes are
the “bushes” by applying fluorescent green and pink colours illusory as a mirage, while only the interchanging of the sun and
that symbolize spring. The science-fiction atmosphere points the moon is luminous than ever, lightening up the dawn of life.
vaguely at the trace of some idiosyncratic creatures in another
time and space. Among the fragmented crystal of colours, four The Collision of Individuality and Society
human figures are floating on water. Though aimless they may This work was named as A Drift of an Anarchist by its’
seem, they are enveloped and sheltered by encircled bubbles. author Huang Yuxing. “Anarchism” originated from Ancient
While the flickering kaleidoscope-like image that consists of Greece and was developed by a philosopher called Aeschylus.
fluorescent colours resembles colour-enhanced digital picture, It emphasizes the subtle strong-weak relationship between the
who aggressively challenges the system and essence of media.
right of an individual and the profit of a community. Regarding this
The Origin of the Long River of Life
admirable work that is wild yet self-disciplined, it can be treated
Those creatures that are flowing in the “river”, those embryos that as an alien epic concerning contemporary life or the reflection
are bred inside the oval like a bubble or matrix, reveal their fragility towards nowadays’ efficiently-operating technologies, society
as if they will break at one touch as well as embrace a wide and interpersonal relationships.
variety of life forms. They breathe freely in the water where they
were born. Other fragmented crystals are identical to the blood “Light”, “river”, “bubble”, “bushes”...... These creative elements
vessels, bones and cells in the matrix, which revive life experience have been adopted so repeatedly in Huang Yuxing’s artworks
since early 2000 that they have
become critical media of his
self-expression. As an artwork
that has a complete collection of
these classic elements, A Drift of
an Anarchist is considered to be
his prominent masterpiece and
attended his first solo exhibition
in Whitestone Gallery in Taipei in
the same year of its’ completion.
රρጳ෦ॶئٙڠ‘dᏀдɢ੹೥̺d145 Ò 230 cm.d2014 ϋЪdೌִ݁˴່٫ٙɓϣဎݴ‘€̛ɓ࠯ϣڥ޴׵ᖵஔ࢕ 2018 ϋ
שርϓʹᄆ 5,891,900 ʩಥ࿆ ̨̏ͣͩ೥఼ٙࡈ࢝

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