Lot 1378: CHEN LIU

CHEN LIU
(B. 1973)
Aerial View Series - Jurassic No.7
signed in Chinese (lower right)
mixed media on paper, hanging scroll
291 x 97.5 cm. (114 1/2 x 30 3/8 in.)
Painted in 2009

Beijing, China, Today Art Museum, Solo Exhibition of Chen Liu 2009, 22-31 November 2009.

Collector World, Solo Exhibition of Chen Liu 2009, exh. cat., Beijing, China (illustrated, p. 115; details illustrated, p. 117).

The artist wants to pursue the mystery of visual experiences. This pursuit, combines with the artist's imagination, enables him to "imitate", hence a picture is painted to depict the visual experience. Even for our daily life visual encounters, one should not only retain a fixed perspective. When creating art, one needs to constantly move and enhance his perspective. It is a shame for an artist to paint and sell the same piece of work throughout his entire life. Even the magnitude and altitude of perspective is indistinguishable in quality, it aptly reflects the depth of one's thought and reflection.
Chen Liu's Segmented Series departed from the single, close-up, levelled, and bird's eye perspectives and transformed his art into three-dimensional and multiple perspectives. He amalgamates past and future, China and the rest of world, presenting in his paintings a harmony of humanity and deity, technology and nature. The three biggest elements in our universe, earth, sky, and sea all seem to wholly represented on Chen's canvas, like a running stream on a terrain, complimenting the sky and flowing towards the sea.