For more than 20 years, the Braille and the concave-convex forms of the Braille became inseparable subjects to the artist Li Xiuqin, she transformed them into her works. The work Touching: an Equal Opportunity was born at her exhibition in Hangzhou, then developed during the tour to Shanghai, Qingdao and Beijing. It is a continuously developing project, with a powerful sense of rituality, by means of interactive collaboration with the blind, to shape “equality”, the artist projects her concerns and emotions onto the sculptures. Renke Art Gallery is pleased to present "Touch", the exhibition of new works by Li Xiuqin.
LI XIUQIN
李秀勤 ／ Li Xiuqin
1953 Born in Qingdao of Shangdong province, China
1982 graduated from Sculpture Dept., Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art (now China Academy of Art, CAA), attained bachelor’s degree, Hangzhou, China
1988 Researched in Slead Academy of Arts UCL, UK
1990 Graduated from Sculpture Dept., Manchester Metropolitan University, attained Master’s degree, UK
Currently lives & works in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Professor & PhD Supervisor, Sculpture Department, China Academy of Art, CAA, Hangzhou
Co-Director, 4th Studio of Sculpture Department, CAA, Hangzhou
Research Fellow of State Art Academy
Solo Exhibitions
1993
Sense of Touth · Concave-convex, CAA Art Space, Hangzhou, China
1995
Li Xiu Qin Exhibition, CAA Art Space, Hangzhou,China
1999
Installation-Sculpture-Painting, The 2nd Gallery Washington State University, WSU, U.S.A
2013
Touching Point-Sculpture Exhibition, Hangzhou Library, Hangzhou, China
2014
Somewhere 20 Years Ago, Renke Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China
2014
Connecting Art and Society in Braille – 20 Years of Sculpture Works by Li Xiuqin, Qindao Tiantai Museum of Art, China
2014
Connecting Art and Society in Braille – 20 Years of Sculpture Works by Li Xiuqin, Shanghai Baoshan IFAE, China
2015
Touch – Li Xiuqin Solo Exhibition, Renke Art Gallery, Hangzhou
Group Exhibitions
2015
Cross the Year: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Renke Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China
2014
Social Factory: 10th Shanghai Biennale 2014, Shanghai, China
BolognaFiere Shanghai International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China
2013
Cracked Culture? The Quest for Identity in Contemporary Chinese Art, Venice, Italy
2012
Forms of Formless, Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, Germany
2010
Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition in Shanghai World EXPO, Shanghai, China
2009
Strategic Form: International Metal Sculpture Exhibition, Monterrey Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico
2008
Sculpture of Nature: Orient Western, International Sculpture Biennal, Anglie Touren, Italy
2007
Female's Angle of View: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Venice, Italian
2006
The Documents Exhibition of Chinese Contemporanry Art, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China
2005
The 2nd Beijing Biennial International Art Exhibition, Chinese Art Museum, Beijing, China
2004
China · Imagination-The Sculpture Exhibition of Chinese Contemporanry Art, Jardin des Tuileries, Pairs, France
2001
Chinese Season, Paris, France
Stew – The Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Norway
2000
The Sculpture Exhibition of Two Person, Clark University Gallery, USA
1999
Opening the Street Exhibition, Washington State University, USA
1998
Tradition & Consideration: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Embassy of Germany, Beijing, China
Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Female Artists, Bonn Frauen Museum
1997
1st Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art Sichuan & Hongkong, China
Continue: Five Artists Sculpture Exhibitions, China Central Academy of Art Gallery, Beijing
1989
London Slead Youth Sculpture Exhibition, London, UK
1987
1st Chinese Young Artists’ Exhibition, Beijing, China
Pubic Collections
Horice International Sculpture Park, Czech,
Yuzi Paradise International Sculpture Park,
Shanghai International Sculpture Park,
Zhejiang University library,
Zhejiang Water Conservancy and Hydropower College,
Washington State University,
Changbai Mountain of Yanji Sculpture Park,
Beijing Shijing Mountain
International Sculpture Park
PREFACE
“Dot, dot, dot-dot, dot, dot, dot……no start, no end, no expressions, not uttering a word, it has an energy beyond words, from the inside out, an energy imparts immense life-will, I shall never forgot touching the Braille for the first time.”I wrote this passage for my first solo exhibition Sense Of Touch: Concave-convex Art, it is also the source of my creations. For more than 20 years, I myself, the Braille and the concave-convex forms of the Braille became inseparable elements to me, I transformed them into my art works.
As my life is slowly consumed and enriched by time, the tree of art grows quietly. My 20 years of art and life is a time node, I forged the time, the destiny, the art and the human nature into a coherent whole, presented them in my solo exhibition Touching Point in 2013. After 20 years of preparation, my interactive works with Xu Mazheng Touching: an Equal Opportunity was born at my exhibition in Hangzhou! It then developed during the tour exhibitions in Shanghai and Qingdao, on the opening ceremony of the last exhibition at Beijing Yuan Art Museum, I collaborated with Liu Gongyi and Han Dong, two students from Bejing School For The Blind, which deepened and extended my former works Touching: an Equal Opportunity. It is a continuously developing project, with a powerful sense of rituality, by means of interactive collaboration with the blind, to shape “equality” ……
Close my eyes, enter the darkness, reach out, touch! Touching, awakening the nerves, I entered an immense space, my sense of direction was lost. A vague ‘image’ from afar was floating towards me, affecting all the cells of my body, transforming into streams, flowing in my veins... It was hard to describe what I have touched and what have touched me… Feel the mud, press my fingers into the mud, feel the concrete, press down again. I sensed the mud flowing through my fingers like mountains, valleys, rivers, reefs, I embodied them: touch, press, I sensed the flowing delicate texture… All my nerve cells affected by the ‘image’ were set free in the process of touching and pressing, all my time and space were occupied by these experience. Soaked with sweat, I opened my eyes, as if seeing it for the first time, I was shocked by the unacquainted ‘image’ moulded by the mind-body sensation and the vision-touch synaesthesia. The works by the blind Xu Mazheng, Liu Gongyi and Han Doing also touchs my heart!
The marks left behind by the ‘touching’ and the ‘image’, like beams of light penetrated the darkness, enlightened my heart. In this image era, I transform my mind’s image into the visual pattern of the works, project my concerns and emotions on them by means of ‘touching’, simultaneously, share them with others. I would like to thank Renke Art Gallery for supporting the art and artists, and for providing such generous help.
Li Xiuqin， 2015
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