1960s LI Yuan-Chia Cosmic Point Multiple Mixed-Media Painting

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Li Yuan-chia
Cosmic 'Point' Multiple
1929–1994
This Original piece from Lisson Gallery London 1968 Exhibition features a painted white lacquered … more Li Yuan-chia
Cosmic 'Point' Multiple
1929–1994
This Original piece from Lisson Gallery London 1968 Exhibition features a painted white lacquered steel panel with 4 magnetic points plastic 2 white, 1 black and 1 red circles. The magnetic points represent magnetic points – Black: Origin + End, Red: Life + Blood, and White: Purity. (THE BLACK POINT IS NOT ORIGINAL - IT IS A REPLACEMENT).

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Cosmic Point by Li Yuan-Chia
Sold Lot #0228
Magnets on lacquered metal panel
24.02 x 35.83 in
edition of 200
Realized Price
Exclusive of Buyer's Premium
13,000 EUR*
(15,401 USD)
Auction Venue/Sale
Ferraton – Damien Voglaire — Modern and Contemporary Art
Sale Date
Sep 12, 2020


More about the artist and piece from Aram Blog May 9, 2014
Li Yuan-chia (1929-1994)

"Increasingly recognised as one of the outstanding artists of the second half of the 20th century, Li Yuan-chia was a highly sensitive artist/poet and audacious experimenter. He produced a very special syncretic art, convincingly combining Chinese traditions of thought and European abstraction, to propose something individual and new. He brought together the concrete, open space we associate with Malevich or Mondrian, with a symbolic use of colour. Li habitually used only four colours: black, which stood for origin and end, red for blood and life, gold for nobility and white for purity. But he was not dogmatic. In his late hand-coloured photographic prints he employed the subtlest nuances of colour.

Li’s guiding concept, artistic and philosophical, was the Cosmic Point. Emerging first out of brush-marks on folding scrolls, the Point later became a solid object, round, square or triangular, about 7cm across, with a magnetic base. It could be moved about on any metallic surface and, with typical generosity, Li opened his work to the participation of others: viewers could move the points about to make new networks, hubs and relationships. Li always wanted the spectator to be the creator.
The Cosmic Point stood for the universe, the origin and the end of all creation, and for the individual’s life journey. To begin with the solid Point objects were monochromatic, using the four symbolic colours – as in the Cosmagnetic Multiple. Later, words were added on the Points and small photographic images, fragments of life and experience, sometimes in the form of ‘points within points’. less