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LIU BOLIN SOLO EXHIBITION
vernissage on saturday 17 May 7pm

刘勃麟个展
展览开幕5月17日下午7点

Performance of the artist outdoor starting at 5pm 艺术家室外表演下午5点

Liu Bolin, born 1973 in Shandong province came up to Beijing in 1999.

Liu receives a place to study sculpture at the CAFA in 1999 and graduates in 2005. He is the student and then the assistant of the sculptor Sui Jianguo from whom he will later retain the clean shapes, striking colours such as red or white, and doubtless also certain character traits like a discrete sense of humour and humility. In reality, when Liu starts to work outside of the national education circuit he is already not really a sculptor. Like many artists in China, he experiments with an abundance of mediums and techniques that fall between his hands, and above all, his work shows relevance and talent. Sculpture becomes a pretext for performance, performance is in itself painting and then painting becomes photography.

The first work that he presents to the public is a series of photographs entitled “Hiding in the City”, in which a man, often the artist himself, camouflages his face and body to disappear into a seemingly innocent urban landscape.

The second break in the very young career of Liu Bolin takes place in 2007 with an emblematic sculpture, the “Closed Fist”. At the time of his urban camouflage period, Liu Bolin’s financial situation is disastrous and he realises that he must produce more saleable works and so he returns to sculpture, more adapted to the market than the camouflages.

In urban camouflages, man becomes invisible. In Red Hands, he becomes blind. Liu Bolin creates a world that appears to be fun and full of bright colours but is in reality uncaring, a reflection of the post Cultural Revolution era to which he belongs. Liu, who considers himself a more realistic than idealistic artist, has managed to express visually a feeling of unease, according to which, despite appearances, everything is not quite right.

Curator: Bérénice Angremy
Co-curator: Marie Terrieux

More info: ifa-gallery.com/exhibitions/liubolin

刘勃麟，1973年生于山东，1999年以一颗即将升起的新星姿态来到北京。

刘勃麟1999年考进中央美术学院雕塑系，2005年硕士毕业。他曾是雕塑家隋建国的助手，并从他身上学到了干净简洁的线条、直接醒目的色彩，例如红色和白色，也许还有几分审慎谦逊的幽默感。但事实上，刘勃麟并未把自己完全禁锢在雕塑领域之内，他开始了所学领域之外的创作。同中国的许多艺术家一样，他游刃有余于各种繁复的色彩和技术当中，并具备驾驭调和各种风格的长才。雕塑成为表现的借口，表现本身则是绘画，而绘画成为摄影。

他首批在公众面前亮相的作品是一系列名为《城市迷彩》的照片，每幅照片拍摄一名男子，大部分同为艺术家，脸上和身上涂满油彩，悄无声息的消失于城市景观之中。

刘勃麟方兴未艾的艺术生涯中的第二个断点发生在2007年，即颇具争议性的作品“握紧的铁拳”。在城市迷彩期间，刘勃麟的经济状况很差，他意识到自己必须创作有市场的作品。他重新回到比城市迷彩更适合市场的雕塑作品上来。

在城市迷彩中，人变得隐形。在红手中，人变得盲目。 刘勃麟创造了一个鲜艳的看似有趣的世界，但事实上他并不是这么温和，他反映了文革后的一代人，他自己也是其中一份子。刘勃麟认为自己更是一个现实主义而不是理想主义艺术家，能够将困惑的情感视觉化，在外表之外，抓住那些并不圆满的东西。

策展人：黎静
合作策展人：玛丽

更多信息： ifa-gallery.com/cn/exhibitions/liubolin



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