Sunday, November 18, 2007

Artist: Liu Hong Wei

1965 - Born in Beijing, China
Graduated from the Fine Art department at Hebei Teaching University, China

Liu Hong Wei's haunting, geometric settings are reminiscent of M.C. Escher sketches of impossible stairways and Giorgio de Chirico paintings of metaphsical landscapes. The artist's gallery describes his paintings "solitary, desolate, almost menacing visions. In these bizarre lands of Liu's imagination the perspectives of mind and space are skewed."
Swimming Pool
2006
Oil on Canvas

Check Series - Fun!
2006
Oil on Canvas

98 Diary - Still Life
1998
Oil on Canvas

Sill Life
1999
Oil on Canvas

This work sold for $43,680 at Christie's Hong Kong on May 27, 2007 - a record high at auction for this artist.

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