Artwork details

Artist

Title

Forrest Gump in a Spaceship

Description

Jia Aili
Forrest Gump in a Spaceship, 2013
1-color 1-run soap ground etching with hard ground etching, drypoint and aquatint
20-1/4 x 21-1/8 inches

Edition: 30

Forrest Gump, the hero of the eponymous 1986 Winston Grooms novel and 1994 Robert Zemeckis film, is a popular fictional character in China, especially celebrated for his three-year running marathon. In both the novel and the film, Gump travels to China with the All-American Ping Pong team during the Ping Pong Diplomacy period of the early 1970s. However, this print portrays an adventure that only appears in the novel, in which astronaut Forrest rockets into space and later crash-lands in New Guinea where he is captured by a native tribe.

Date

2013

Medium

Etching and Aquatint

Edition

Signature

Signed

Sheet

20-1/4 x 21-1/8 inches

Status

Available

Price

$3,000.00

Jia Aili

Beijing-based contemporary artist, Jia Aili was born in Dandong, Liaoning Province in northeast China in 1979. Aili studied at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art, one of the most important in China, and he is considered one of the top emerging artists of the day. He paints, sculpts and creates large-scale installations. During his residency at Graphicstudio, Aili was introduced to etching and other processes, resulting in his first print editions.