BANK is proud to announce that artist Liang Hao donates the artwork Blood (2024) to the Asian Art Archive 2024 Annual Fundraiser Auction.
The painting Blood depicts books stacked on top of each other, with dark tones and large shadows from the artist's recent interest and research in the dark side. Blood is also an inverted vision of fire and energy, as the medical doctor A·Roy-Desjoncades suggested: "I do not think that this fire is a violent, tumultuous, irritating and a heat against nature...but a gentle, moderate, balsamic-smelling fire, which carries with it a certain humidity approximating to that of the blood that seeps into heterogeneous habits like a nutritive syrup, separating them, moderating them, smoothing out the roughness and angularity of their parts, and ultimately making them that mild, clear, and commensurate with our nature." This passage may seem mild and absurd, but it also connects the artist to knowledge from books, pictures, and archives, with similar associations to fire and blood.
The annual auction is an essential source of support for AAA, raising a significant portion of our operating budget. Over fifty works of art generously donated by artists, galleries, and individual donors from across the globe will be on view.
