Author: MA KE 马轲

Size: 219×390cm

Signed and dated: Painted in 2012

Estimate: 1,000,000 -1,500,000

Final Price: RMB 1,300,000

LITERATURE
2013.4 Contemporary Oil Painting / P136
signed in Chinese and Pinyin, dated 2012（on the reverse)
EXHIBITED
2014 Art Beijing Platform China, Beijing

My painting is often in a positive and unstable state. When I bend over the existing concepts, conventions and inertia, and bend over power and interests, painting often makes me miserable. But getting rid of all kinds of constraints, and establishing a metaphorical connection between fleeting images and the present, that is, the moment of painting achievement, I will be happy and full of ambition, and I can feel the dignity of human nature and the loftiness of the individual, as if I were reborn. For this kind of Instant desire is the internal driving force of my painting.
People are hidden in paintings. Joys and sorrows need magic to cross.
——Ma Ke