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LI WEI and LIU ZHIYIN
Li Wei and Liu Zhiyin, both born in 1980, are a sculpting art partner. In 2010, they both graduated from Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts and studied sculpture and fashion design respectively. After that, Li Wei studied sculpture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts as a visiting scholar in 2016. Currently, they live and work in Beijing.
Their works are full of strong oriental charm and integrate the artistic essence from Western sculpture to create unique artistic language endowed with great tension. Their collaboration is a perfect match, Li Wei is the ‘body’, Liu Zhiyin is the ’form’, the form gives the body essence, energy (qi), and spirit, and the body is attached to the form. The two must mutually intergrow, and they vividly express this interrelated fate in their artworks. They absorb a wide range of experiences from contemporary sculpture to achieve visualized transcendental spiritual contemplation. The impressions that can be traced to our senses, are intuitively expressed through the fashionable color schemes. The visual language of their artwork
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Li Wei (artist)
Chinese artist
Li Wei | |
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| Born | (1970-09-05) 5 September 1970 (age 54) Hubei, China |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Education | Suzhou Silk College Central Academy of Fine Arts Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts An Hui Teachers' College Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts |
In this Chinese name, the family name is Li.
Li Wei (simplified Chinese: 李𬀩; traditional Chinese: 李暐; pinyin: Lǐ Wěi; born in 1970, Hubei, China) is a contemporary artist from Beijing, China. His work often depicts him in apparently gravity-defying situations. Wei started off his performance series, Mirroring, and later on took off attention with his Falls series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages, but that he uses mirrors, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics.[1]
Wei's works have been published on the cover of the following magazines: Flash Art, Work,
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Li Wei’s work is anything but cautious. In fact, it can be described as peculiar or quirky, depending on your perception of life. Characterized by bodies that are often positioned in near-impossible angles, such as buried in windscreens and toppling off skyscrapers, Li Wei’s bizarre works are distinctive.
His popularity and rise to fame were catapulted by his gravity-defying Fall series, which consisted of different scenarios that saw the artist bury his head in various sticky situations such as in the windscreen of a car, in a pile of books and newspapers, in Como lake, in walls, and so on.
When he first started, Wei would use mirrors to examine and play with reality. By using mirrors, he was able to create false superimpositions and syntheses in interesting ways that allowed him to express his personal thoughts and experiences while addressing the social issues that occurred in contemporary society.
Li does not consider his work to be political, however. He says, my works, especially the early ones, contain m
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