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LI SHAN 李山
b. 1942, works and lives in Shanghai and New York
LI SHAN 李山
2008
Acrylic on canvas
176(H)*363cm
LS_0283

Li Shan’s paintings of Reading series seem to be sketches of a biologist before he carries out an experiment. Looking like unfinished works of art, they record the traces of the artist’s thinking and are garnished with conflicting elements and contradicting vocabulary. In fact, they can be regarded as an embodiment of Li’s bio-art concept in panel paintings, “all life is equal and the same.” The paintings integrate human, dragonfly, sperm and other symbols of life, presenting a progressive state of information exchange in genetics.
  
While reading, skipping, misreading and mispronunciation are inevitable. However, for Li, these are indeed the most appealing and meaningful. When they are connected to the behaviour of reading, a new definition of life and creation of alternative art can be spawned.

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Related Exhibitions:
The Kind Stranger, UNArt Center, Shanghai 08.23, 2019 -10.20, 2019
The Reason Why Classic Is, Artron Art Center, Shenzhen 12.17, 2017 -01.20, 2018
Holzwege, ShanghART, Shanghai 11.09, 2016 -03.09, 2017



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