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Artist Statement:
Lei LiangĄ¯s Artist Statement
I name my art as Chinese
Localizationalism at the
moment of my art is being
exhibited in Liverpool
Biennial of Contemporary Arts
2008. My art is deeply rooted
into Chinese native spirit
from a view of contemporary
experiences, and based on my
typical Chinese art concept
and my art experiences that is
completely different from
current Chinese art. (081015)
I am a Chinese oil painter in
Beijing. My art is a special
Chinese type painting, and it
reflects the typical Chinese
concept and multi-cultural
opinion: east and west. This
is a mountains and waters
picture based on western
techniques. What I am doing is
to provide a brand-new
experiment in Chinese
contemporary art, and
establish a new logo for
landscape art. I believe
China's art will return to
China's inner culture and
value concept, that is
independent of western
landscape.
My art reflects the eastern
harmony and meditation
philosophical concept. All the
landscape and flowers are
purely the symbols of harmony
and the inner way to one's
summit light. Audience will
notice on my paintings the Red
Sun over the universe. And we
all people of different
nations will meet ...
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Lei Liang's Localizationalist Art Represents Chinese New Art in Liverpool Biennial 08
Lei Liang, a Chinese Localizationalist artist, participated Liverpool Biennial 2008 of International Visual Arts.
In Chinese contemporary art, Lei is a renovative artist who doesn't follow the main stream to copy other countries' art forms. With his own individuality and artistic character, he holds a brilliant flag against the main Chinese copy art and ruffian art.
We Chinese have our own art forms and philosophical system, and we have our own root. Why copy and follow other forms from outsider countries? Lei said.
To learn from other countries is quite necessary and essential for us. What we need is to create instead to copy, to lose ourselves, Lei added.
That's why he is always alone, at his philosophycal summit. All Chinese exhibitions, galleries, curators and critics united for only one reason: refuse Lei Liang.
That is why the Biennial organizers paid attention to this newly emerged artist from China. He is completely different from almost all other artists.
With Chinese spirit and western oil materials and techniques, he created a magnificent metaphysical illusion for Chinese contemporary art forms. His weapon is Chinese mountain and water as well as peony. He uses them to pk other artists' copy art and ruffian art.
His art was selected by Biennial curators as "a reaction to the pervasive documentary focus of much contemporary art, highlighting the emotional charge within artistic imagination and our fascination with and need for 'making things up'."
And Nicole Bartos writes the commentary to Lei Liang's Localizationalist Art "Sun over Mountain and Water", as follows:
"Lei Liang captures the universal essence of colour. The sunset light behind the mountains is somehow alive and almost changing for the eye. A painter with great sensitivity and awareness for colour and its energy vibration. The work takes me in a metaphysical space; a space modelled for the human mind, where silence and meditation can meet; a space that can take shape within the colourful waves of diverse frequency.An expression of floating energy and the subconscious' perception of time in a universal space." commented by Nicole Bartos, the famours art curator at Liverpool Biennial of International Visual Arts 2008.
Hua Gu, www.LeiLiang.com
(Related Biennials: Independents Liverpool Biennial 2008,La Biennale di Venezia (Venice), berlinbiennale, BERLINER KUNSTSAlON 05, Berliner Kunstsalon, 6a Bienal do Mercosul, art cologne, berlinbiennale - 6th berlin biennial, Biennale of Sydney 2008 Australia's Festival of Contemporary Art, Busan Biennale, CIAC, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, manifesta7, Sharjah Biennial 2009, Singapore Biennale 2008, The Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Transmediale, VIENNABIENNALE 08 VIENNABIENNALE, Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V. Zentrum f¨šr k¨šnstlerische Bildmedien Sachsen-Anhalt, Beijing Biennial, Shanghai Biennial. )
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