LIU YUJUN
LIU YUJUN
Date of Birth: January 1, 1900
Biography
In Liu Yujun's painting series entitled *Unidentified Liquid*, most of the canvas is dominated by images of women combining the temperament of traditional Chinese women and the character of modern Chinese urban women.
More specifically, Liu Yujun has created a series of unique images of "beautiful women" by enlarging and changing the forms in an invisible manner and by expanding and synthesizing in two opposite directions.
In the first direction, he focuses on the image of imperial palace maidens, the traditional Chinese beauties. In this respect, Liu Yujun adopted some characteristic features, such as the slanting eyes with single eyelids and the traditional hairstyles from ancient Chinese paintings of imperial palace maidens, to emphasize the characteristics of Chinese women.
In the opposite direction, Liu Yujun specifically focused on the coldly elegant features of modern urban women, such as the cold and indifferent eyes, the heavily made-up lips, the smooth and shining skin, the slightly opened and seductive mouth, and the characteristic postures and expressions.
Liu Yujun ingeniously integrates the most traditional and most modern aesthetic elements, two completely opposite aspects, into the images of "beautiful women" in his paintings. This reflects his deep insight and exact representation of both the gender characteristics and the cultural nature of images of Chinese women.
From the perspective of artistic expression, Liu Yujun combines the oldest artistic methods with the most popular forms of expression from modern times in his series *Unidentified Liquid*.
1963: Born in Handan, He Bei Province, China.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- Liu Yujun Solo Exhibition, Robinsons Art Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
- Liu Yujun Solo Exhibition, Wangye Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
- Singapore Contemporary Art Show (Asia Contemporary Art Show Singapore), Singapore
- Asia Contemporary Art Show Hong Kong 2016, Hong Kong
- Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong 2016
- Soemo Fine Arts Collection Exhibition, Soemo Fine Arts, Beijing, China
- Aff Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Art Beijing, Beijing, China
- China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, China
- Robinsons Art Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
- Shcontemporary Art Fair, Soemo Fine Arts, China
- Seven Seventy Gallery, Paris, France
- Galerie 138, Honfleur, France
- Galerie Titren, Beaune, France
- Lineart, Gent, Belgium
- Robinsons Art Gallery, Knokke Zoute, Belgium
- Shanghai Contemporary, Shanghai, China
- Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Lineart, Gent, Belgium
- Affordable Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium
- Seven Seventy Gallery, Paris, France
- Art Paris, Paris, France
- Galerie 138, Honfleur, France
- Galerie Adler, Miami, USA
- Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Galerie Bertin-Toublanc, Miami, Florida, USA
- Gallery LL, Laren, The Netherlands
- Lineart, Gent, Belgium
- Art Paris, Paris, France
- DJT Fine Art, New York, USA
- Galerie Adler, Paris, France
- Lineart, Gent, Belgium
- Robinsons Art Gallery, New York City, New York, USA
- MiArt, Milan, Italy
- Lineart, Gent, Belgium
- Singapore Art Fair, Singapore, China
- Beijing Art Fair, Beijing, China
- MiArt, Milan, Italy
- Art Singapore, Singapore, China
- Guangzhou International Art Fair, Guangzhou, China