Liu Xiadong Exhibition
Mary Boone Gallery (Midtown)
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Widely considered to be the leading "New Generation" figurative painter in China, Liu Xiaodong studied at the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where he now teaches. This will be his first New York exhibition. In 2006 Liu was invited to participate in “Vanishing Sites”, an arts project conceived to document the sweeping changes affecting the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in Western China. Two monumental landscape paintings from this trip are
presented in this exhibition. “Qinghai-Tibet Railway” is a five-panel panorama painted in situ portraying two herdsmen in Western dress leading their horses across an open plain. In the distance at one end, gray factories spew smoke under a dark sky, while at the other end, the new train cuts across the sunlit landscape.
[Image: Liu Xiaodong "Qinghai-Tibet Railway" (2007) oil on canvas 98 x 394 in]
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from March 06, 2008 to April 26, 2008