Lot 871
  • 871

Xing Danwen

Estimate
10,000 - 20,000 HKD
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Description

  • Xing Danwen
  • Disconnexion Series B2 & A3 and Urban Fiction 4 (three works)
  • chromogenic prints, framed
  • 66 3/4 by 83 7/8 in. 169.5 by 213 cm.
  • executed in 2004
Disconnexion: i. signed in Pinyin, titled B2 and numbered 1/5; signed in Pinyin, titled in English, dated 2002-2003, 2005, numbered 1/5 and marked with a seal of the artist on the reverse
ii. signed in Pinyin, titled A3 and numbered 4/5; signed in Pinyin, titled in English, dated 2002-2003, 2005, numbered 4/5 and marked with a seal of the artist on the reverse

Urban: signed in Pinyin with a seal of the artist, titled in English and numbered 3/5

Exhibited

Disconnexion: Stanford University, Cantor Arts Center; Wellesley College, Davis Museum and Cultural Center; Indianapolis Museum of Art, On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, January 2005-September 2006, fig. 65 & 67

Literature

China Onward, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, 2007, pp. 312-313, 316-317

 

Condition

Urban: This work is generally in very good condition. There is a line of minor creases running horizontally across the print along the line of the roof. This work is framed under Plexiglas - please note that it was not examined out of its frame. Discconnexion: These works are generally in good condition with a faint crease on the lower left edge of A3 and a faint wrinkle on the lower left edge of B2. Each work is framed under Plexiglas - the works were not examined out of their frames.
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