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GUAN YONG
(Chinese, B. 1975)
Has Man a Future?
Signed 'Guan Yong' in Pinyin; signed, titled and inscribed in Chinese; titled, dated and inscribed 'Has man a future? 160 x 130 cm oil on canvas 2008' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
160 x 130 cm. (63 x 51 1/8 in.)
Painted in 2008
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Please kindly note that Lot 1432 is signed, dated and titled by the artist.

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Lot Essay

The behavior of human beings is limited by their culture. The spread of cultural knowledge tend to not only affect the way how knowledge is formed but also constructs our universal value and vision.
It seems they were born sensitive to nature. Their facial expressions reveal a despondent blue, and their gazes are acutely sharp enough to penetrate deeply into people's hearts. Their body has lost all tangibility and captures a certain spiritual denotation.
The representation of the artist's skill can be expressed through "an observation from feelings of unfamiliarity." The type of feeling that forces you to rethink and conjure different thought as if going through a timeless zone untraceable within space. Meanwhile, it directly aims at your heart to search for direction within your soul.
Max Weber once said, "Thousand of years had to pass before you came into life, and other thousands of years wait for you in silence." When the greatest values of human beings vanish from our society in life, the destiny for human achievements in this era will come to an end and will be the greatest sorrow for humanity.

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