Details
CollectionNg Eng Teng Collection
Object numberN1998-0001-075-0
TitleRed Modesty
CreatorNg Eng Teng (1934 – 2001)
Description“In Red Modesty, the natural forms are retained but are pared down to their essentials. Although it can be read om purely formal terms, it affects the spectator in terms of the associations it arouses, particularly with fragments of classical sculpture in its omission of head and limbs. By cutting out the breasts and the pudenda, he in fact directs our attention to these missing parts, thus creating a presence out of absence. These hollows give the work a strange, mysterious life. Eng Teng explains, “Conceptually, this second series is different from the earlier one. This second series is inspired by the way nude figures reproduced in magazines or newspapers are tap overed to mask the vitual areas, I might as well curve them out. So I literally carved and hollowed them out.”” (Bodies Transformed, Ng Eng Teng in the Nineties, Page 27).
Production date 1991
Object categorySculpture
MaterialStoneware, pomegranate red glaze
Dimensions
H: 111 cm
L: 32 cm
W: 22 cm
L: 32 cm
W: 22 cm
Credit lineGift of Ng Eng Teng
