Liu Xiaodong "Yan’ Guan Town"
Mary Boone Gallery (Chelsea)
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Mary Boone Gallery presents Yan’ Guan Town, an exhibition of new paintings by LIU XIAODONG.
Considered to be the leading “New Generation” figurative painter in China, Liu studied at the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where he now teaches. This will be his second New York exhibition.
In the summer of 2009, Liu Xiaodong traveled to Yan’ Guan County in Gansu Province,
China. For centuries an area known for horse trading, the previous year Liu had spent time there painting horses and became fascinated by the region’s crossroads of cultures. On this return trip he sought to depict the peaceful co-existence of Muslims and Christians – both non-indigenous cultures and foreign to Liu -- through portraits of two families that he had met.
Working in situ at the small café owned by the Muslim family (he was not permitted
inside their mosque) and the Christian family’s simple brick church, for each family Liu created a large group portrait and a series of individual portrait studies.
[Image: Liu Xiaodong "Qi Qi" (2007) oil/canvas 79 x 79 in.]
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Schedule
from September 11, 2010 to October 23, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-09-11 from 17:00 to 19:00