WILSON KA HO SHIEH (SHI JIAHAO, BORN 1970) Kintaro, 2010WILSON KA HO SHIEH (SHI JIAHAO, BORN 1970)Kintaro, 2010Ink, colored pencil and collage on archival paper, matted, framed and glazed, signed by the artist with a long inscription in Chinese and English, dated 2010, version 1 of 2, from the series The Cultural Life of Wilson Shieh. 29 x 19 1/4in (75 x 50cm) 石家豪（生於1970年） 金太郎 彩鉛拼貼紙本 鏡框 二〇一〇年作款識 Inscriptions：浮世繪 UKIYO-E 金太郎 KINTARO山姥と金太郎我在大學接受中國畫訓練，繼而集中工筆畫創作，那時對於日本傳統藝術帶點偏見，例如看浮世繪版畫時，總覺色彩太雜亂，造型太誇張，是很世俗化的商品。後來自己的創作路向，是以傳統工筆技巧描繪現代題材。當我走訪世界上許多美術館，仔細觀看珍藏的浮世繪版畫，漸漸意識到，我的創作其實跟這些風俗畫傳統甚有關連。2006年我有機會到新加坡泰勒版畫院作短期交流，跟我合作的日籍版畫家，看到我的作品，認為可以嘗試以浮世繪風格表現。兩年後計劃果然成事，由居於日本京都的浮世繪彫版師北村昇一先生，把我一套《音樂家庭》刻印成木版畫。他本職是復刻傳統浮世繪，送我《十二生肖》中的幾款，雞年那幀是一位日本傳說中的神力童子"金太郎"正在觀看鬥雞。後來我找到不少有金太郎與其母"山姥"的浮世繪，這些母子生活圖象，都很生動，我想可以向育有小男孩的母親多介紹。I studied Chinese painting in the university and focused on practicing gongbi (fine-brush ink painting) technique. By then I was not interested in traditional Japanese arts. When I looked at Ukiyo-e prints, I thought that the coloration was too loud, and the figures were exaggerated. They were kitschy crafts. When I started my artistic creation, I used traditional Chinese ink technique to depict modern subject matter. While I was visiting art museums around the world, I was attracted by their excellent collection of Ukiyo-e prints. I started to realize that my painting resembled the Ukiyo-e in many ways. In 2006, I was offered to work for a project at Singapore Tyler Print Institute. My working partner was a Japanese printer. When he looked at my work, he asked if I wanted to try making prints in Ukiyo-e style. Two years later the plan was realized. An Ukiyo-e woodblock carver Shoichi Kitamura, who lived in Kyoto of Japan, collaborated with me to complete a set of prints titled "Music Families." Kitamura gave me some samples of the "Chinese Zodiac" series copied from traditional Ukiyo-e as gift. For the year of Rooster, a legendary Japanese boy "Kintaro" is watching rooster fighting. I then found out many images of Kintaro with his mother "Yamauba" in the Ukiyo-e tradition. I love these pictures of mother and son. They are lively and funny. I think they should be introduced to mothers who have young boys.石家豪的文化生活（三十六歲，2006） The Culture Life of Wilson Shieh (age 36, 2006) 版本 Edition 1/2 2010 Provenance:Osage Gallery, Hong Kong來源：香港奥沙畫廊Wilson Shieh Ka Ho was born in Hong Kong, and in 2001 he graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Master's degree in Fine Arts. As documented in his inscription on this lot, his approach to art focuses on the traditional technique of gongbi (meticulous brush), where artists render minute details with fine brushstrokes. Here he utilizes colored pencil to illustrate a time in his aesthetic evolution. The M+ Collection in Hong Kong holds forty works from the artist, including the second edition (2 of 2) of Ukiyo-e Kintaro, 2010 , the present lot. In 2021 M+ exhibited the 16 works that compose his series, "The Cultural Life of Wilson Shieh (2010), from which this lot belongs.