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Auction archive: Lot number 18

Liu Wei

Estimate
HK$1,900,000 - HK$2,800,000
ca. US$244,967 - US$361,004
Price realised:
HK$2,000,000
ca. US$257,860
Auction archive: Lot number 18

Liu Wei

Estimate
HK$1,900,000 - HK$2,800,000
ca. US$244,967 - US$361,004
Price realised:
HK$2,000,000
ca. US$257,860
Beschreibung:

Property of an Important American Collector Liu Wei Purple Air 6 《紫氣6號》 2006 signed and dated 'Liu Wei [in Chinese and English] 2006' on the reverse oil on canvas 249.8 x 149.9 cm. (98 3/8 x 59 in.) Painted in 2006.
Provenance Grace Li Gallery, Zurich Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited Zurich, Grace Li Gallery, Purple Air: New Works by Liu Wei, June 10 - August 10, 2006 Catalogue Essay “The computer is like a big brain that is constantly thinking, and I am only organizing … But its method of thinking is totally different from mine. It is just pure logic into color.” –Liu Wei Liu Wei is one of China’s leading contemporary artists, who, for the past 15 years, he has worked in many different styles and media ranging from sculpture, painting, installation and photography. As part of a generation in China that grew up during a period of rapid change and urbanization, he frequently looked to his surroundings for inspiration which he discovered in found objects and architectural constructions, to express his views of a changing material landscape comprised of decay, demolition and construction. He would break away from other artists around him who were subversively referencing politics to focus on expressing a freer art form without boundaries. At the early age of 15, while studying painting at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, he would learn that technique was not necessarily important. Purple Air 6 is an iconic example of his early painting where he chose to transform and re-explore Chinese landscape painting. His hallmark geometric forms of horizontal and vertical lines in the foreground take the form of a monumental shape suggestive of craggy mountain partially obscured by the protruding branch of a pine tree, whereas the shapes in the background resemble a modern sprawling cityscape - all in a manner that references traditional Chinese landscape painting. Liu’s paintings are in fact not made with a brush but digitally rendered on a computer which is then painted onto a larger canvas by his assistants. A landscape made up of this geometric scheme is the artists’ own unique way of self-expression. He tries to find a personal sense of order within the turbulent disorder of contemporary landscape. His works have been included in major museum exhibitions and collections around the world and he is represented by international galleries in New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong and Beijing. Read More

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
27 Nov 2016
Auction house:
Phillips
Hong Kong
Beschreibung:

Property of an Important American Collector Liu Wei Purple Air 6 《紫氣6號》 2006 signed and dated 'Liu Wei [in Chinese and English] 2006' on the reverse oil on canvas 249.8 x 149.9 cm. (98 3/8 x 59 in.) Painted in 2006.
Provenance Grace Li Gallery, Zurich Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited Zurich, Grace Li Gallery, Purple Air: New Works by Liu Wei, June 10 - August 10, 2006 Catalogue Essay “The computer is like a big brain that is constantly thinking, and I am only organizing … But its method of thinking is totally different from mine. It is just pure logic into color.” –Liu Wei Liu Wei is one of China’s leading contemporary artists, who, for the past 15 years, he has worked in many different styles and media ranging from sculpture, painting, installation and photography. As part of a generation in China that grew up during a period of rapid change and urbanization, he frequently looked to his surroundings for inspiration which he discovered in found objects and architectural constructions, to express his views of a changing material landscape comprised of decay, demolition and construction. He would break away from other artists around him who were subversively referencing politics to focus on expressing a freer art form without boundaries. At the early age of 15, while studying painting at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, he would learn that technique was not necessarily important. Purple Air 6 is an iconic example of his early painting where he chose to transform and re-explore Chinese landscape painting. His hallmark geometric forms of horizontal and vertical lines in the foreground take the form of a monumental shape suggestive of craggy mountain partially obscured by the protruding branch of a pine tree, whereas the shapes in the background resemble a modern sprawling cityscape - all in a manner that references traditional Chinese landscape painting. Liu’s paintings are in fact not made with a brush but digitally rendered on a computer which is then painted onto a larger canvas by his assistants. A landscape made up of this geometric scheme is the artists’ own unique way of self-expression. He tries to find a personal sense of order within the turbulent disorder of contemporary landscape. His works have been included in major museum exhibitions and collections around the world and he is represented by international galleries in New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong and Beijing. Read More

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
27 Nov 2016
Auction house:
Phillips
Hong Kong
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