Faurschou Foundation is proud to present\u00a0Painting as Shooting by Liu Xiaodong, one of China’s most influential painters of the last two decades, at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice.<\/p>\n
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This exhibition will be\u00a0the first major European show to fully explore\u00a0Liu Xiaodong’s unique art practice, one which\u00a0subtly yet forcefully focuses on the deep social and ecological chiasms in our contemporary life. The exhibition is curated by J\u00e9r\u00f4me Sans and will focus on a specially selected list of projects from the last decade that are dealing with major sociological and environmental issues in the world.<\/p>\n
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PAINTING AS SHOOTING
\nLiu Xiaodong approaches his work with the eyes and the storyboard practice of a filmmaker. Each of the artist\u2019s major works begins with a simple idea from one of his daily diary entries, describing the events he has witnessed, photos he has taken or people he had met, and then transforms them into live characters on his canvas. In a way the artist\u2019s paintings resemble a production set where he acts as a director who collaborates with actors to play, record or recreate a situation, various impressions or the effects thereof. It is hereby that Liu Xioadong embodies the concept of \u2018painting as shooting\u2019.<\/p>\n
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BIOGRAPHY<\/p>\n
Liu Xiaodong (1963) lives and works in Beijing. He holds a BFA and an MFA in painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (1988, 1995). The artist gained recognition in the 1990s and represents the Chinese Neo-Realism style. His solo exhibitions include Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (2012) and Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2010), while his work was also shown in various group exhibitions such as the Shanghai Biennale (2000, 2010), the 15th Biennale of Sydney (2006) and the 47th Venice Biennale (1997).<\/p>\n
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J\u00e9r\u00f4me Sans is an internationally renowned curator, art critic, artistic director who has curated numerous major exhibitions around the world. He was the former director of the ground-breaking Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art in Beijing and co-founder of the acclaimed Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He is currently artistic director of one of the most important urban development projects in<\/p>\n
Europe, the Lyon Rives de Sa\u00f4ne-River Movie, and co-founder of Perfect Crossovers ltd, a Beijing based cultural consultancy group.<\/p>\n
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FAURSCHOU FOUNDATION<\/p>\n
Faurschou Foundation is a privately owned art institution with a collection of contemporary art of the highest international class, with exhibition venues at Copenhagen North Harbour as well as Beijing\u2019s attractive art neighbourhood 798. Faurschou Foundation introduces the visitors to some of the world\u2019s most acclaimed artists. Faurschou Foundation\u2019s collection is constantly developed and expanded.<\/p>\n
Over a very short period since its establishment in 2011 Faurschou Foundation has profiled itself as a significant art institution with solo exhibitions of among other artists Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo-Qiang, Louise Bourgeois, Shirin Neshat, Gabriel Orozco, Danh Vo, and Bill Viola.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38636,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cini_tax_event_categories":[1487],"cini_tax_institutes":[],"cini_tax_event_locations":[1464],"class_list":["post-38887","cini_events","type-cini_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cini_tax_event_categories-exhibitions","cini_tax_event_locations-island-of-san-giorgio-maggiore"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n