Author: HUANG YONGPING 黄永砯

Size: 500×500×500cm

Signed and dated: Made in 2004

Estimate: Estimate Upon Request

Final Price: unsold

LITERATURE
2004 Odyssey（s）/P25-26/Shanghai Gallery of Art
2004 The Monk and the Demon：Chinese Contemporary Art/P16-21/5 Continents Editions
2004‘Pluralism of Individuals，Aspects of Chinese Contemporary - The Monk and the Demon：Chinese Contemporary Art （Fei Dawei）’，embodied in Art Scope
2004‘The Monk and the Demon - Chinese Contemporary Art Issues Proposed by an Exhibition （Guo Xiaoyan）’，embodied in Art Forum
2009 The Spectacle of the Everyday/P328-329/Centre National des Arts Plastiques

EXHIBITED
2004 The Monk and the Demon：Chinese Contemporary Art，Musee d’Art Contemporain de Lyon，Lyon，France
2009 10th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art，Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art，Lyon，France
NOTICE
The work is to be handled and claimed in Hong Kong，China. Please contact Beijing Poly Auction Modern and Contemporary Department Staff for further details.
In 1853，it is said that a Jewish colonist buried a cast gold sculpture of the head of Christ on the outskirts of Lyon. Later，this plac became known as the Parc de la Tete d’Or （Golden Head Park）. In 2004，I have the opportunity to place a gold-plated model of a Song-dynasty pavilion，named Golden Head，atop the Museum of Contemporary Art，Lyon，just across from the “Parc.” Roffs do not necessarily face upwards，just as heads sometimes face downwards. This is especially true here，where the disappearance of a golden head of Christ hurried underground leads to a golden Song-dynasty roof atop the museum. The relationship between them is that both are lying low – he head on the left and the roof on the right or，maybe，the roof on the left and the head on the right. If we imagine a kind of rotating perpendicular line，it might look like this：Everything is changed and can be reborn，just as a missing Christ’s head can turn into a Song-dynasty pavilion. Only the incorruptibility of the gold itself does not change. Today’s gold，China’s gold，yesterday’s gold，and France’s gold – they are all the same.