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Lot 157 THE BREAKING DAWN: EARLY CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART - THE JOHNSON CHANG COLLECTION
HE SEN (China, B. 1968)
Two Friends in a Chair
Closed29 May 2016
Price Realised
HKD 625,000
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Specialist note
It is quite possible that in the mind of everyone who is courageous is the spirit of the heroic Che Guevara, and everyone humble a recluse like Ji Kang. This is a place without vanity or shame, confidence or self-blame, glory or dishonour. It is only concerned with nature and the frame of reference. – He Sen
He Sen was born in Yunnan in 1968. He graduated from Sichuan Fine Art Institute in 1989. During the social turmoil of the 1990s, He Sen chose the path of self-imposed exile. He offered this explanation, “Perhaps it is my nature to prefer quietude. I tend to drift away from the complexities of the society.”
He Sen's works are melancholic and tragic. The nebulous and dreamlike qualities in the grey and red construct a mysterious sense of distance. This is precisely the ideal space for He Sen to meditate. Two Friends in a Chair (Lot 157) was painted in 1991. The figures are depicted as clusters of paint over a grey background in an expressionistic manner. The relationship between the figures' mental processes and bodies is the focus of the artist. He Sen explained that this works represents “the fear of adulthood and the escapism from reality.”
He Sen was born in Yunnan in 1968. He graduated from Sichuan Fine Art Institute in 1989. During the social turmoil of the 1990s, He Sen chose the path of self-imposed exile. He offered this explanation, “Perhaps it is my nature to prefer quietude. I tend to drift away from the complexities of the society.”
He Sen's works are melancholic and tragic. The nebulous and dreamlike qualities in the grey and red construct a mysterious sense of distance. This is precisely the ideal space for He Sen to meditate. Two Friends in a Chair (Lot 157) was painted in 1991. The figures are depicted as clusters of paint over a grey background in an expressionistic manner. The relationship between the figures' mental processes and bodies is the focus of the artist. He Sen explained that this works represents “the fear of adulthood and the escapism from reality.”