Liu Wei You Like Me? 1996 Oil on canvas. 12 1/4 x 16 in. (31.1 x 40.6 cm). Signed and dated "Liu Wei [in Chinese and English] 1996" lower right.
Provenance Private collection, Berlin Catalogue Essay Like an allegorical communion of art and nature, Liu Wei’s works are imbued with the artist’s projections of beauty, sexual fantasies, as well as his conscious acceptance of the inescapable cycle of existence. By continuously transforming his subjects, Liu Wei gives birth to monstrous biological hybrids, in which elements of the animal, mineral, and plant kingdoms are metamorphosed into shapeless masses teeming with frantic impulses—silmultaneously procreative and destructive. With their irreverent, but also poetic and contemplative character, Liu Wei’s paintings reveal not only the fusion of the outward forms but also a spiritual unity between the artist and his subjects. He says: “People, animals, landscapes are all the same; they all have a soul; that’s why I melt them together in my paintings.” (N. Colonello, Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Ostfildern, 2004, p. 314). Read More
Liu Wei You Like Me? 1996 Oil on canvas. 12 1/4 x 16 in. (31.1 x 40.6 cm). Signed and dated "Liu Wei [in Chinese and English] 1996" lower right.
Provenance Private collection, Berlin Catalogue Essay Like an allegorical communion of art and nature, Liu Wei’s works are imbued with the artist’s projections of beauty, sexual fantasies, as well as his conscious acceptance of the inescapable cycle of existence. By continuously transforming his subjects, Liu Wei gives birth to monstrous biological hybrids, in which elements of the animal, mineral, and plant kingdoms are metamorphosed into shapeless masses teeming with frantic impulses—silmultaneously procreative and destructive. With their irreverent, but also poetic and contemplative character, Liu Wei’s paintings reveal not only the fusion of the outward forms but also a spiritual unity between the artist and his subjects. He says: “People, animals, landscapes are all the same; they all have a soul; that’s why I melt them together in my paintings.” (N. Colonello, Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Ostfildern, 2004, p. 314). Read More
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