The artist in preparation for Liu Wei: Colors at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, February 7-April 17, 2015
Image courtesy the artist and Lehman Maupin.
We have appreciated Liu Wei’s artistic projects for quite a while, and we have been enamored with his “Color” paintings since we first saw them, most notably at Art Basel last year (at both Lehmann Maupin and Long March Space exhibition booths).
This year Wei has specifically designed a group of new works for the Great Hall at the UCCA in Beijing that allow the viewer to explore his formal language of space and material across media in what exhibition curators are calling a distillation over fifteen years into a “radical purity”. The Hall is installed as an “immersive environment” where visitors can never quite get around, or away from, the works on view.
We especially love his monumental paintings that originated as digital compositions and were painstakingly completed by many hands.
For more about this exhibition, click here and here,
Enjoy some of our favorite “color” paintings from Art Basel 2014 below!
Liu Wei, Sandwich No. 1, Oil on canvas at Long March Space, Art Basel 2014.
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A detail of the technically fantastic linear motif applied to the surface of Liu Wei’s Long March Space paintings.
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An even closer view.
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The paintings from a distance are hazy and vibrate to draw the viewer in.
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An oil on canvas Untitled, 2014 by Liu Wei in the distance at the Lehmann Maupin Booth at Art Basel 2014 (with Shirazeh Houshiary on the left).
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A closer view.
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