This book is the first to publish the full extent of this project through its iterations in China, Germany, the UK and Australia.
The remarkable plein air paintings of Liu Xiaodong (b.1963), which chronicle everyday lives within our diverse modern world, are the focus of this first monograph of his career to date.
In Liu Xiaodong's painting, "Prostitute 2," a young woman stands on a bed in disarray. Her eyes averted from the viewer, she leans, with classic contraposition, on a wall as...
Yet he is not content with the pure descriptive imagery, as he also refers to the larger social structures at play. [...] By mining unique personal stories and utilizing distinctive brushstrokes, coded in a rich and varied history, he ...
The book is accompanied by a documentary film realized by Tong Weijun, a long time collaborator of Liu Xiaodong, who casts a view of the country and its people depicting the process of Liu Xiaodong's artistic creation and the challenge of a ...
" - Andrea K Scott, The New YorkerThis book commemorates Liu Xiaodong's highly regarded pandemic project and online exhibition of 2020, entitled Spring in New York.For the first half of 2020, the usually itinerant Chinese painter found ...
For a period of six weeks, Liu Xiaodong documented his encounters with Londoners, much as he has done previously, while living and painting among residents of Tibet, Japan, Italy, Cuba and Israel.
Liu Xiaodong: Painting as Shooting
In his oeuvre, Liu Xiaodong shows moments and stories from human life as well as situations and landscapes with an outstanding immediacy and extraordinary empathy.
Published on the occasion of the 2023 exhibition 'Shaanbei' at Lisson Gallery New York, this full-colour, dynamic catalogue documents the most recent series by legendary Chinese painter Liu Xiaodong.This marks the artist's most ambitious ...