The Road to the Winterland of My Discontent, I Know Not Where Lead elegantly activates multiple realms of space – both real and imaginary. A former employee of architect Zaha Hadid, Koh executes a demanding control over spatial organization. Fourteen days of wearing black followed by white attire the day of cremation aroused the curiosity of the artist, later executing works in all white or all black.The present lot, The Road to the Winterland of My Discontent, I Know Not Where Lead, exemplifies an employment of the latter hue. According to the artist, it was his interest in Asian funerals – which he attended as a child - that prompted such color use. Common in the work of Koh is the exploration of a monochromatic use of color. In 2007 Koh undertook the “GOD” series, of which our present lot, The Road to the Winterland of My Discontent, I Know Not Where Lead, is a central piece.The series is characterized by the color black, which is imbued with countless associations such as the infinite, nighttime, the absence of light or god’s presence, alternate realities, and freedom. Since Koh’s first solo exhibition at Peres Projects, Los Angeles in May 2003, working at the time under the name Asianpunkboy, he has become an internationally renowned artist via his signature works in various media including performance, sculpture, painting, artist books, video and photography. His oeuvre functions as a fictional autobiography of the globe-trotting artist. Raised in Canada, Beijing-born Terence Koh exhibits little distinction between his life and his art. Hollein, Terence Koh: Captain Buddha, Cologne, 2008, p.89). In the process,Terence Koh repeatedly places his own personality at the center, in mythologized, perfect self-glorifications-and thus in no time at all, he has made himself the ultimate Gesamtkunstwerk.” (M. “Koh creates works that can be experienced with great physical and psychological intensity, works that create their own cosmos, in which decadence and deliberate transgression reign.
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