LIU XIAODONG \/ IN BETWEEN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>Invited by Steven Henry Madoff and the Tel Aviv Art Museum,\u00a0curator Hou Hanru works with Chinese artist Liu\u00a0Xiaodong to produce a series of paintings during a month\u00a0long exploration of Israel and Palestine. In his final series\u00a0of 20 works, titled \u201cIn Between Israel and Palestine,\u201d Liu\u00a0Xiaodong explores the vastly juxtaposing environments\u00a0of the two conflicting states. Over the four weeks that Liu\u00a0Xiaodong lived in Tel Aviv, he traveled throughout the Holy\u00a0Land to witness and research the implications of religion,\u00a0nationality, and cultural diversity. Throughout the project.\u00a0Liu Xiaodong also enhances the project\u2019s breadth through\u00a0his written diaries and the documentary film that was simultaneously\u00a0produced.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n —————–<\/p>\n Liu Xiaodong is one of China\u2019s foremost artists and a painter of international stature. Born in 1963 to factory worker parents in Jincheng, a\u00a0town in China\u2019s Northeast, Liu Xiaodong trained at Beijing\u2019s Central Academy of Fine Arts where now teaches as a professor. He is a supremely\u00a0proficient realist painter, heir to Chinese Socialist Realism which became dominant in the Mao years, a fusion of Western nineteenth century\u00a0Realist painting as filtered through Russian academic and then official Soviet styles. Liu Xiaodong made a conscious decision in the aftermath\u00a0of 1989\u2019s Tian\u2019anmen Square uprising to depict the world and people around him faithfully and honestly. In a contemporary art context where\u00a0photographic media are dominant, alongside self-conscious forms of painting and conceptual installation, such a strategy is both brave and\u00a0radical.<\/p>\n Liu Xiaodong\u2019s brand of realism is however neither backward-looking nor solipsistic. He paints \u2018en plein air\u2019, introducing performative and\u00a0participatory dimensions to his practice. The scale of his projects often matches that of film-making, with elaborate location development and\u00a0semi-intuitive story-boarding chronicled in detailed project diaries and illuminating documentary films. His painting style is therefore skilled,\u00a0self-conscious and carefully planned \u2013 but also candid, fluid and responsive, the simple depiction of individuals tied to a particular place, the\u00a0simple narration of occurrences tied to a specific time. Focusing on individual people, he captures the full range of human emotion: hope,\u00a0ambition, satisfaction – but also confusion, longing and despair.<\/p>\n ———————-<\/p>\n Liu Xiaodong: In Between Israel and Palestine \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n English and Chinese, 96 pages, Moleskin Cover<\/p>\n Essay by Hou Hanru<\/p>\n Contains a 16′ film of Liu Xiaodong’s journey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LIU XIAODONG \/ IN BETWEEN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE \u00a0\u00a0Invited by Steven Henry Madoff and the Tel Aviv Art Museum,\u00a0curator Hou Hanru works with Chinese artist Liu\u00a0Xiaodong to produce a series of paintings during a month\u00a0long exploration of Israel and Palestine. 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