
Luxe Populaire (Le Monde)
Wang Du's *Luxe Populaire (Le Monde)* is a striking sculptural work in which a page from the French newspaper *Le Monde* has been rendered in acrylic on polyester resin, transforming a fleeting, everyday media object into a rigid, three-dimensional artifact. The piece captures the crumpled, tactile quality of a real newspaper, frozen in time and elevated to the status of fine art. Through this material transformation, Wang Du interrogates the relationship between mass media, consumer culture, and the construction of reality in the modern information age.
- Medium
- acrylic on polyester resin
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Day Sale
October 17, 2013
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