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Liu Weijian

LIU WEIJIAN

Solo Exhibition: I Love You ShanghART 17 October–15 November 2015 Beijing
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ShanghART Beijing is pleased to present Liu Weijian’s Solo Exhibition: I Love You on 17 October, 2015. This is Liu Weijian’s first solo exhibition in Beijing and will last until 15 November, 2015.

Liu Weijian’s creations have great changes in recent years. From the solo exhibition The Call of the Crows in 2007 to the latest one I Love You in 2015, the paintings of Liu Weijian have changed from focusing on the narration and conception to the painterliness centered creation status. The artist tries to solve the painting problems through the painting itself.

Three groups of paintings on canvas created during 2014 to 2015 will be presented in this exhibition. Several unrelated elements are interacted by the ‘mood’ under the real or fantastic space-time, which creates Liu Weijian’s exploration of the individual’s vitality and the macroscopic world. ‘I Love You’ is an attitude, a choice of the lifestyle, and also an indefinable status.

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About the Artist

Liu Weijian has defined his cold and recondite way of ‘social narration’ through his early works: he wears a cold neutral ‘image’ mask and takes it as the root of his ‘conceptual painting’. With his cold touch and melancholy feelings, Liu Weijian’s work deals with many of the current issues he and his contemporaries think about daily and creates a feeling of constant movement and of un-finished business.

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About the Gallery

ShanghART gallery was initiated in 1996 in Shanghai. It has since grown to become one of China’s most influential art institutions and a vital resource to the development of contemporary art in China with two spaces in 50 Moganshan Road (Main Space and H-Space), a public warehouse space in West of Shanghai (ShanghART Taopu), and a gallery space in Beijing and representing over 40 artists.

Being recognized for its importance ShanghART became the initial gallery from China participating in major international art fairs like Art Basel and Fiac, Paris. ShanghART gallery also enjoys the great respect of being among the 75 most influencial galleries selected in Thames & Hudson’s publication ‘International Art Galleries: Post-war to Post-millennium.’

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Beijing 261 Caochangdi, Airport Side Road, Chaoyang District
ShanghART contemporary art gallery in Beijing China
ShanghART
261 Caochangdi, Airport Side Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
+86 106 432 3202
http://www.shanghartgallery.com

Opening hours
Tuesday - Saturday
11am - 6pm

Closed Sunday and Monday
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