LIU CHUANHONG

A Thousand Plateaus Art Space is pleased to present the exhibition Liu Chuanhong Solo Exhibition: Memoir in Southern Anhui on September 20^th, 2014. It’s Liu Chuanhong’s second solo exhibition at A Thousand Plateaus Art Space. Memoir in Southern Anhui is a three-year huge project including paintings and text, it consists of 14 groups of works including 38 oil paintings, over 100 diaries, maps and attack plans.

Liu Chuanhong is an artist full of imagination. He is good at fabricating Liu Chuanhong’s own stories from his own experience, emotional memory and the complicated history. In Memoir in Southern Anhui, Liu Chuanhong fabricated ‘Mr. Liu’ and his journey into the enemy-occupied area in Southern Anhui from 1940 to 1942. Mr. Liu is a marginal man with a dual nature of intellectual and bandit chieftain. He is an anarchist. He gets money from the attacks on China’s rural vigilantes and rich merchants, and seeks the inner peace from his journey and field trips. It makes Liu Chuanhong revive his boyhood fantasies about the life of lone rangers.

Liu Chuanhong (b. 1975, Changchun City, Jilin Province, currently living and working in Beijing, Changchun and Linxian County, He’nan Province) is more like a troubadour who is separated from contemporary life. Since 2002, he pertinaciously kept away from urban life, choosing to farm, paint and write in Taohuadong Village in the Taihang Mountains area of Linxian County, Henan Province. During his hermit years, the landscape and life in the mountain became his subject matter. Also, Liu is a master of writing stories, he always gets materials and inspiration from his own life. Accompany with his paintings, there are plenty of bogus documents bringing us into a real dreamland. However, he really lives in Peach-Blossom-Valley (Taohuadong Village, Taihang Mountains, Linxian County, Henan Province). “When he is not drunk, he would sit before the flowers; He would lie beneath them to spend his drunken hours.” In the fairy dream of Peach-blossom-valley, there’s not much difference between real and sham, or between false and true. His works also lead to the keywords below: mountain life, nature, humanity, nostalgia, Peach-Blossom-Valley, hermit, existence...