Palace Door
Artist Name:
Li Kai
Medium:
Digital Pigment Print
Release Date:
9/1/2003
Image Size:
20"x16"
Number in Edition:
100
Price:
$1,000.00
Li Kai was an artist in residence at the Forbidden City for eight years. In 1974, during the Cultural Revolution, he was assigned there as a restorationist, cleaning and repairing paintings and other art within the Palace grounds. He lived in a small apartment that had existed for centuries and every day as he returned to it he would pass by a gate that somehow left a deep impression on him. When he made "Palace Door" the gate was just as it is shown, worn by time and missing some of the large gold-plated nails. There are nearly 1000 doors or gates to the Forbidden City, but Li Kai thinks this one must be at least 500 years old, and to him it holds the entire history of the place.
