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Kong Shengqi, Pantomime horse,
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Kong Shengqi, Pantomime horse,
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Kong Shengqi, Pantomime horse,
Kong Shengqi, Pantomime horse,
Kong Shengqi, Pantomime horse,

Pantomime horse, 2018
Kong Shengqi

Sculpture : wood

16 x 87 x 18 cm 6.3 x 34.3 x 7.1 inch

€5,500 5 500 €

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Medium

Sculpture: wood

Dimensions cm • inch

16 x 87 x 18 cm 6.3 x 34.3 x 7.1 inch Height x Width x Depth

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The sculpture cannot be displayed outdoors

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Portrait

Animal

Bizarre

Horses

Beige

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Artwork location: France

Kong Shengqi's new work, Pantomime Horse, marks a new stage in the artist's work. The wood she uses for this sculpture made for the “Parade” exhibition initially reminds her of the powerful and massive leg of a Percheron horse. More than the figure of the animal, it is its essence that she wants to capture. From this first impression, she will then design a whole story that she will bring out of the material. On this lying paw then appears a double face. Carried outwards, the features of a soft and lunar being emerge, a real presence ready to come to life before us. To its right, its inverted and hollowed pendant seems on the contrary to sink into the material of the wood, as if it were in the process of being erased or were only a fleeting appearance of an entity from another world.

In reality, this appearance/disappearance of the human figure is a reference to the actor who, hidden under a veil or behind a set, brings the horse to life. Because Pantomime Horse is the story of a show playing out before our eyes. But where then is the reality? is it really the actor who controls the animal like a puppet thanks to the copper rod that we see emerging from the wood? Or on the contrary, is it the spirit of the beast that came to incarnate briefly in the guise of a man before returning to its initial state as the face on the left might suggest?

In full philosophical reflection on its existence and its presence in the world, the half-man/half-horse creature did not see the snake come to slip into its center. Its bite, perhaps fatal, then redistributes all the cards. In the real world or in the world of the spirits, it announces tragedy, or the end of a dream.
The curtain drops.
The show ends.
And the creature has now taken refuge in our memories.
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Kong Shengqi
China  • 1989

Presentation

Young Chinese artist born in Beijing in 1989, Kong Shengqi chose to settle in France from 2015 after studying architecture in China. She initially followed a second cycle “space design option" at the Institute of Arts in Toulouse before entering École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris where she obtained a DNSAP with the congratulations of the jury in 2018 and will be part of the admissions jury for the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris the following year. She is also the laureate of Beaux-Arts de Paris x Altarea project in 2020 and Beaux-Arts de Paris x Moët Hennessy project and Prix Gide – Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021. She currently lives and works in Paris.

Kong Shengqi's works, carved in wood, soft and clear, bring out of the material fantastic and organic creatures, with round faces and naive features, sometimes almost childish and sometimes terrifying.

Her obvious love for the material that is wood and her way of sculpting particularly evokes the arts of the natives of North America, which can be found in Alaska or on the Inuit lands of Canada.

In the “project" report dedicated to her last exhibition, Margaux Brugvin specifies that her sculptures “are thought to be used in forms of invented rituals. One looks through the cavity of a screaming face to discover the slits of two eyes on the other side of the sculpture. For the latter, Kong Shengqi's sculptures evoke sacred objects, human or animal deities on which the visitor is free to project their own references and interpretations and come to explore “their childhood fascinations and terrors, the mystery of what happens inside bodies, inside every living being, the biological or mystical forces that govern every entity and make up our world of which we do not understand that so few things. »

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