Liu Xintao
Liu Xintao is like a photographer working at night, crossing the whole city with camera in hand. On observing a goal, he would immediately raise the camera, carefully adjust the lens setting and distance, and finally compose the scene in the viewfinder. His pictures are strikingly vivid, like what is still happening. Yet, it’s merely virtual, still with distance from the reality, which is hard to perceive.
The coordination and combination between reality and virtuality are based on Liu’s dependent meditation on an ideal city. In using colors as black, white and grey, techniques as flowing, painting and scrawling are properly adopted; the white area in the picture is just like the break at the brim of the city. By skillful use of light, pictures become livelier and fresh .From the scene afar, from the corner, or from the viewfinder, light serves as means to promote the atmosphere on the pictures, during the transition from shining light to dark colors, the use of subtle grey especially shows the artist’s wonderful techniques. To feel the corruption of a city just begins from visual indication to spiritual meditation.
--- Zheng Na
1968: born in Xi Chang, Sichuan, China
1992: graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts --- Bachelor’s Degree
Teaching in Fine Arts Department --- Associate Professor
Solo Exhibition:
1997: Cosmopolitan Character --- 1997 Liu Xintao’s solo exhibition of oil painting; Chengdu, China
2006: “the Despondent Night” --- Time and Spring Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Group exhibition:
2007: “New Power ·China” Nominative Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum
“New Power ·China” Nominative Exhibition --- Wuxi Invitation Exhibition; Wuxi Museum
“Three years of Blue Roof” --- Contemporary Art Exhibition, Blue Roof Artistic Center, Chengdu
Contemporary Art of Chengdu --- North American round exhibition, Edmund Art Museum, Canada
Tradition and Hearsay--- the 3rd Guiyang Art Biennale, Guiyang Art Museum
“1976-2006 from the Modernity of Country to the City Utopia”--- the review exhibition of Sichuan Art School, Boyi Gallery (Sino- Foreign Cultural Exchange Center of the Culture Department), Beijing
China Contemporary Art --- Tel Aviv, Israel
Shanghai Art Fair Emerging Artists Exhibition (Asia): Shanghai Basel Art Space --- SH World Trade Center
2008: Bologna Arte Fiera: Shanghai Basel Art Space --- Bologna Art Fair, Italy
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