Li Wei Falls to the Car (Beijing, 2003). HIs works have been published on the cover of the magazines such as Flash Art, Work, Magazin-Frankfurter Rundschau, Out of the Red, Zoom, Juliet, Contemporary, Theater Forum, NY Arts, Fine Arts Literature, Lapiz and Arte Al Limite.Artist lives and works in Beijing, China.
See available photographs, paintings, and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. In addition, performance art also allowed Li Wei to create and manipulate his own fantasy realities.He began to use mirrors in a distinctive way to scrutinize and play with reality. We sometimes just cook the crops we get and eat them. In 1993 he enrolled in a private art school to study oil painting but left it after a year due to his disappointment with its dogmatic teaching methods. The nature nurtures my childhood.
artnet and our partners use cookies to provide features on our sites and applications to improve your online experience, including for analysis of site usage, traffic measurement, and for advertising and content management. © 2013-2020 Widewalls | His work questions human perceptions of social spaces and expresses a need of freedom: it draws out the fine line between reality and fantasy and points it out to the audience. Li Wei has participated in numerous solo and group exhibited worldwide, including China, France, US, Denmark, Hong Kong, UK, Italy, Spain and Australia, among others. Li Wei (李威) is a Beijing-based female artist born 1979 in Harbin, China. We aim at providing better value for money than most. In the East Village art community, the shocking performance works by Zhang Huan and Ma Liuming opened his eye. In his work, Wei combines several artistic mediums including performance, photography, installation and video that create illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei Art resumes 1970 born in Hubei 1993 Admitted to Oil Painting Department of Beijing East Culture Art Academy. I remember during the busy seasons in my elementary school days, the school will let us transplant rice seedlings. Story of my Life. He received his BA from the Sculpture department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2007. His art may seem humorous but they address wide range of topics from gender relations to politics. We provide art lovers and art collectors with one of the best places on the planet to discover modern and contemporary art. Li Wei is an internationally known Chinese artist born in 1970.
by Li Wei. Biography CV Exhibitions Publications Selected Press Lí Wei was born in Beijing, China, in 1981. The mirror would usually contain a hole in the middle for Li Wei to insert his head. Lí Wei adopts a hyperrealistic style in his sculptures, focusing on conveying the emotions of the figures.
Wei came to realize that performance art was a more effective way through which to execute his artistic concept, and that the human body was a more effective medium through which to carry out his artistic ideas. Li Wei is an internationally known Chinese artist born in 1970. Li Wei’s rise to fame was through his performance of the “Falls” series in which he sticks himself in the group as a missile.