Li Gang (b. 1986, China) is the author of pieces that act as catalysts for the reflection of essential dilemmas and personal contradictions; these works possess the rare ability to combine the universal and the specific, the intimate and the distant. Along with sculpture and installation, all media coexist in a rather idiosyncratic and even performative way in Li's work. Materials are combined in a dialectical way; from daily trash to traditional pencils, from natural wood to transparent scotch tape, from organically asymmetrical stones to surprisingly irregular measuring tapes, these elements blur the line between mimesis and estrangement, the two extremes of artistic creation. Li's realm is what Jorg Heiser refers to as 'the hegemony of the impure,' in which past '-isms' give way to individualistic, pluralistic, and atomised methodologies that unfold an infinite range of possibilities before the eyes and hands of the viewer and the artist.
Read MoreLi Gang (b. 1986 in Dali Yunnan Province, China) lives and works in Beijing, China. He had solo exhibitions at: Rolando Anselmi, Rome (2017), Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki (2017), Galerie Urs Meile Lucerne (2017, 2014, 2011), Galerie Urs Meile Beijing (2016, 2013, 2011). Recent group exhibitions include: Contemporary Gallery Kunming, Kunming (2018), Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne (2017), Museum of Confluence, Lyon (2017); YiShu8 Art Foundation (2016, Beijing); Louis Vuitton Foundation Musuem (2016, Paris); Gasometer Kulturzentrum (2016, Liechtenstein); The 6th Moscow Biennial (2015, Moscow); K11 Art Foundation Pop-up Space (2015, Hong Kong); K11 Art Museum (2015, Shanghai); Palais de Tokyo (2014, Paris).
Text courtesy Rolando Anselmi.
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