The artist explains:
"This piece of work is about panic, fear, anger and despair. I used the signs of the fascists. Even though they are now dead I saw them walking."
Interview with James Hyman, December 2007
Sun Liang
Strange Walk
Oil on canvas
110 x 120 cms (43.23 x 47.16 ins)
1989
Exhibited:
Garage Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China, 1991
Change-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Goteborg Art Museum, Goteborg, Sweden, 1995
Genesis of Image: Sun Liang's Oil Paintings, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2006
85 New Wave, the Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2007
Sun Liang, A Painters Journey, James Hyman Gallery, London, 8 October - 15 November 2008.
Literature:
Sun Laing: A Painter's Journey James Hyman Gallery, London, 2008, (cat. 3), detail p.1 and illustrated p.15 and p.44.