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Christie's auctions off video piece by Paik Nam-june
HONG KONG, May 29 (Yonhap) -- Global auction house Christie's said Sunday it has auctioned a video work by Paik Nam-june, the late Korea-born American video artist, for HK$4.22 million (US$542,381).
"The TV is Kitsch," created by Paik in 1996, is a robot-like sculpture -- composed of 13 wood TV cabinets, two DVD players, two 5-inch TVs, four 9-inch TVs and seven 13-inch TVs -- that plays two original videos made by Paik.
"At nearly three meters tall, the figure cuts an imposing silhouette but is equally reminiscent of the now quaintly antiquated past visions of the future, a Frankenstein creature cobbled together by our own collective consciousness, evoking the science fiction 'clunkyness' of such old Hollywood inventions as the robots," said Christie's.
The screens offer Paik's signature manipulation of appropriated broadcast imagery, capping this masterwork as a mesmerizing and unabashed celebration of the advent of television and its ubiquity in modern culture, the auction house explained.
Along with Paik's work, Korean artist Lee Ufan's oil painting, "From Point," was sold for HK$1.82 million, Christie's said.
Out of the 45 works offered on Saturday, 42 were sold, including a work by renowned Chinese contemporary artist Zeng Fanzhi, "The Leopard," whose proceeds will go to the Nature Conservancy, the U.S. charitable environmental organization.
The top lot was a work by Chinese-French painter Zao Wou-ki, "2.11.59," which sold for HK$40 million, Christie's said.
"The TV is Kitsch," created by Paik in 1996, is a robot-like sculpture -- composed of 13 wood TV cabinets, two DVD players, two 5-inch TVs, four 9-inch TVs and seven 13-inch TVs -- that plays two original videos made by Paik.
"At nearly three meters tall, the figure cuts an imposing silhouette but is equally reminiscent of the now quaintly antiquated past visions of the future, a Frankenstein creature cobbled together by our own collective consciousness, evoking the science fiction 'clunkyness' of such old Hollywood inventions as the robots," said Christie's.
The screens offer Paik's signature manipulation of appropriated broadcast imagery, capping this masterwork as a mesmerizing and unabashed celebration of the advent of television and its ubiquity in modern culture, the auction house explained.
Along with Paik's work, Korean artist Lee Ufan's oil painting, "From Point," was sold for HK$1.82 million, Christie's said.
Out of the 45 works offered on Saturday, 42 were sold, including a work by renowned Chinese contemporary artist Zeng Fanzhi, "The Leopard," whose proceeds will go to the Nature Conservancy, the U.S. charitable environmental organization.
The top lot was a work by Chinese-French painter Zao Wou-ki, "2.11.59," which sold for HK$40 million, Christie's said.
