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Liu Wei (Chinese: 刘韡; born 1972 in Beijing) is a Chinese artist based in Beijing. He works in varied media – video, installation, drawing, sculpture, and painting – with no uniting stylistic tendency, though the Saatchi Gallery finds a uniting theme of "a sentiment of excess, corruption, and aggression reflective of cultural anxiety". [2]
Liu Wei. This parody of grotesque consumption re-emerges with Liu’s Love It! Bite It! – a model plan of a city made entirely from dog chews. Comically editing down the world to only the ’tastiest’ bits, Liu’s utopian vision re-engineers the breadth of Western history - from the Coliseum to the Guggenheim - as a carnivorous spectacle.
Liu Wei is a contemporary Chinese painter known for his involvement in the Cynical Realism movement. View Liu Wei’s 728 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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Liu Wei is a contemporary Chinese artist working in many types of media including installation, video, drawing, painting, and sculpture. View Liu Wei’s 165 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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'If you already know Liu Wei's art, you might discover in this landscape both a summary of his work to date and a blueprint of where he might be headed.'
A 1999 show called Post-Sense, Sensibility, Alien Bodies and Delusion is remembered for its visceral sculptures of human and animal bodies and body parts. Liu showed a piece of video art called Hard to Restrain featuring naked people running around across multiple channels.
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Beijing-based artist Liu Wei works across a range of media and techniques, including photography, painting, sculpture and installation. The readymade is a recurring element in his practice, and his work is often assembled out of everyday found objects, such as ceramics, books, television sets, fridges and fans.
