Liu Ren

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ART . RedBox Studio .cn – Do a Book: Group exhibition and installation at White Space, Beijing

[...] Hong Hao, 黄敏  Huang Min, Ravikumar Kashi, 孔国桥 Kong Guoqiao, 梁志和 Leung Chiwo, 刘任Liu Ren, 马军 Ma Jun, 掉对 Out, 庆庆 Qingqing, Kiki Smith, Sarah Sze, Rirkrit Tiravanija, 曾建華 [...]

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Liu Ren was born in Shanghai in 1983 and graduated from the printmaking department of Fine Arts College at Shanghai University in 2007. He has received several art awards in China for excellence and is a recipient of the Luo Zhongli scholarship. He has exhibited throughout China, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, and in group exhibitions in Italy and Germany.

Impurities (2010)
杂 质
Oil painting on paper 草纸上油画
21.5 x 14.4 cm / 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in
Unique
Copyright: Liu Ren, Courtesy of White Space Beijing

Impurities is an artfully precise transcription of an English- Chinese dictionary page for the letter ‘G’ painted on natural paper. This work is reminiscent of the habit of napkin drawings. Using a non- archival, disposable material to faithfully render the illustrations and text of the original publication, Liu Ren makes a strong statement for the ephemeral nature of his own craft. The steady fine line drawings of ‘Glassware’ echo a sense of fragility for cherished things, a philosophy that the artist lives by. His work, as art, becomes merely a record of the passage of time, and his skill, as an artist, is a gift.

Artist Statement:

“I wish I could bond my life and my art creation completely in a single expression. On one hand, I am experiencing my life, and on the other, I am narrating my life. The way art helps me is in that I can, in the name of art, serendipitously encounter others’ experiences through my personal expression. It makes me feel like a spectator at a game, but at the same time, I am in the game.”