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Liu Wei & Mr.Fong 《劉偉作品集》 六十年代初，我在北京上中學。一天，同學們在傳閱一本雜誌，說：在封底的風景畫裏可看見草叢中有一條反動標語。之後的幾個星期内，全中國的人都忙於在各種刊物的圖片中尋找畫中隱藏的反革命字樣或圖像，甚至有人發現蔣介石肖像。 十幾年後才出生的畫家劉偉當然和上述的“影像奇案”毫無關係。他的畫提醒了我們關於過去的瘋狂，反過來，也引起我對劉偉作品的興趣。劉偉出生於江蘇南通，是個地傑人靈的好地方，是范仲奄，駱賓王的故鄉。對傳統文化的傳承，使劉偉的油畫，看上去都是一幅幅山水畫卷，側面看去才發現原來是政治領袖或傳奇明星。山水畫的意境，表現了藝術家的氣質。換個角度才窺見到青年畫家内心的燥動。 劉偉用了一種筆者搞不太懂的透視原理建立了自己的風格。特定的環境形成了中國人特有的狡黠：有話不明說，硬要換個角度說出來，一句話裏，包含有正反兩种意思。因此，在山水畫卷之中，劉偉向觀者訴説中國人難以啓齒的性愛；頌揚他崇拜的英雄。他戲謔梟雄；他響往和諧，甚至他對政治風波的態度都在他的畫裏。劉偉的畫有趣，令我們感受發現的震撼。在當今令人眼花撩亂的當代藝術圈裏，劉偉嘗試用最新鮮的中國語言向不同民族的人講述自己的故事。
方毓仁 二零零八年五月 “Works by Liu Wei” One day, when I was in middle school in Beijing in the early 1960’s, a magazine was circulated amongst my schoolmates, on the back cover of which was a landscape painting. In this painting there was a thick patch of grass in which a disguised reactionary slogan could be discerned. For several weeks after this incident, almost everyone in China was searching for reactionary words and pictures hidden in paintings, even a disguised image of Chiang Kai-shek was said to have been found. Liu Wei, is an artist born in the 1970’s, and he is certainly not linked in any way to the story mentioned above. However, Liu’s paintings remind me of the absurdities of the past and because of this my interest in him has grown. His birth place, the hometown of Fan Zhongyan and Luo Binwang, called Nantong in Jiangsu, is also the birth place of creative minds and gifted talents. All of Liu’s paintings look like landscapes, as his style is inherent of traditional culture. However, when you glance at his works from the side, you’ll be surprised to find political leaders and legendary stars hidden in them. The artistic conception of the landscapes conceals the temperament of the young artist whose innermost feelings are only revealed by viewing them from a different angle. Liu has established his own style by using principles of perspective that are complex and hard to understand. A specific environment always creates specific characteristics, just like the cunning of the Chinese people: they do not tend to express themselves frankly but usually more tongue in cheek, sometimes when they write there are both positive and negative meanings contained in the same sentence. Thus, in his landscape picture scrolls, Liu dwells on sexuality which in China is still a taboo subject. Hero worship also plays an important role in his work. His criticism of ambitious heroes, his wishes for harmony, and even his attitude to political events are all revealed in his paintings. Liu Wei’s pictures are interesting and they also give us the thrill of making shocking discoveries in them. In today’s dazzling modern art circle, Liu succeeds in telling his own stories to an international audience, using a fresh take on Chinese tradition.
Fong Yuk Yan April 2008
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No.03 Chinese Landscape Series - Hu Jintao Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2005 | |
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No.03 Chinese Landscape Series - Jiang Zemin Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2005 | |
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No.07 Waving Hands I Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2006 | |
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No.09 Chinese Landscape Series - Mao Zedong II Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2006 | |
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No.14 Landscape World Celebrities - George Bush
Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2006 | |
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No.14 Landscape World Celebrities - Saddam Hussein Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2006 | |
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No.14 Landscape World Celebrities - Junichiro Koizumi Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2005 | |
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No.18 Landscape World Celebrities - Ronaldo Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 | |
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No.20 Bin Laden in action I Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 | |
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No.21 Bin Laden in action II Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2006 | |
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No.21 Bin Laden in action III Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2006 | |
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No.22 Bin Laden in action V Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 | |
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No.27 Mindscape I Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 | |
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No.31 Mindscape VII Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 | |
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No.32 Mindscape VIII Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 | |
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No.33 Mindscape IX Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 | |
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No.34 Mindscape X Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 | |
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No.41 Beauty I Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 | |
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No.46 Bruce Lee I Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 | |
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No.48 Bruce Lee II Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2005 | |
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No.52 Landscape with a lion Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2008 | |
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Mindscape IV Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 | |
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Human Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 | |
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Mindscape - Marx, Engel, Lenin,
Stalin and Mao Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007
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Mindscape - Mao III Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 Sold | |
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Mindscape - Mao II Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 Sold | |
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Mindscape - Deng Xiao Ping Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 Sold | |
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Mindscape - Bruce Lee Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 Sold | |
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8. | Mindscape - Marilyn Monroe I Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 Sold | |
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9. | Mindscape - Luciano Pavarotti Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 Sold | |
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10. | Mindscape - Mao Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 Sold | |
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11. | Mindscape - Bush Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 | |
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Mindscape - Marilyn Monroe II Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 Sold |
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13. | Mindscape - Che . Guevara Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 Sold |
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Mindscape - Lincoln Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 |
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Mindscape - Junichiro . Koizumi II Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 Sold |
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Mindscape - Richard Nixon Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 |
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Mindscape - Hitler Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 Sold |
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18. | Mindscape - Stalin Liu Wei Oil on canvas 2007 |
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