About Liu Wei - A Chinese Artists

Liu Wei was born on 1972 in Beijing, China. He lives and works in Beijing, China. Liu Wei’s practice is uniquely varied. Working in video, installation, drawing, sculpture, and painting, there is no stylistic tendency which ties his work together. Rather Liu perceives the artist’s function as a responsibility of unmitigated, uncensored expression, tied to neither ideology nor form. Throughout Liu’s work lies an engagement with peripheral identity in the context of wider culture; his works often describe a sentiment of excess, corruption, and aggression reflective of cultural anxiety.
Liu’s sculpture Indigestion II is a monumental poo. Spanning two meters, it’s a man-sized statement of rejection. Crafted with comic exaggeration, Liu’s turd is both repulsive and compelling; leaving no detail to the imagination, Liu offers ‘too much information’ in the details. On closer inspection, half digested kernels emerge as hundreds of toy soldiers, spilling forth in an unmistakable sentiment of protest.
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Liu Wei

Liu Wei's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1972	Born in Beijing, China
	Lives and works in Beijing

Selected Exhibitions:

2006
• The 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
• CHINAJAPANKOREA, Art from Japan, China and Korea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaodengo

2005
• 51 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
• Mahjong, Bern, Switzerland
• First Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing, China

Find more about Liu Wei Exhibitions at
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/liu_wei.htm