Artist Li Qing: For 20 years living in Hangzhou, the scenery changes outside the window

Li Qing, the post -80s artist, has grown in Huzhou, Zhejiang. It has been in Hangzhou since studying the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts. Li Qing has been changing the way to record this era in the creation of "playing". He collected old wooden windows from all over the country, painted old buildings, Internet celebrity buildings, lighthouses, and contemporary urban people through window frames; , Talk to each other.

The "Everyone Come to Find the Failure" series allows everyone to find different in two paintings, and the brain burning is interesting. He also asked the two paintings to "paint yourself" before doing it, and looked like "destroying" two paintings, but in fact, new works were produced.

Not only did he paint, he also liked photography and video art. He took a lot of old Hangzhou houses and recorded a life that was about to die. In Li Qing, he woven his work into a maze of Borchus -like time and space.

Artist Li Qing Personal Portrait

At the Hong Kong Basel Show recently, the two "windows" series of artist Li Qing appeared. Behind his iconic pane is the towering "lighthouse".

"When we were looking at the lighthouse, we always imagined the distance and the other side, trying to go further ....... When we first thought of going to draw a lighthouse, I felt that it showed a psychology of the contemporary people. Want to build a distant Utopia world with rationality.

So in my opinion, the lighthouse is very ideal. "Li Qing recalled the original intention of drawing the lighthouse.

Li Qing, "Six Lighthouse", 2021, photography: Kitmin Lee

One of them, six lighthouses have different shapes, the prototype of the tower body reflects the modernist Bauhaus style. The light between the lighthouse is linked to each other to form polygon.

In particular, the pattern of the pane can be seen at a glance. 6 different colors of cube. Li Qing explained that these hollow lines were built with old windows. He re -colored and emphasized the "shape".

The shape of the lighthouse, the beam, and the patterns comes with the windows are superimposed between the three, and the shape has the effect of "reverberation".

Li Qing, "neighboring Window · Gemini Lighthouse Hotel", 2022, photography: Kitmin Lee

In the other, Li Qingxuo constructed a "twin lighthouse" hotel, two twin lighthouses with pink white as the main color, referring to the real scene of the South China Sea in the South China Sea, showing the shape of the rigid characteristics.

The lower right of the picture is the back of a woman, leaning on the pink swimming pool, watching the lighthouse in front of it, everything is shrouded in the leisure consumerism atmosphere. In the picture, she didn't know that the audience before and before the window was peeping at her.

"Li Qing: Sea View" exhibition site, 2017 New York Friz Expo Frame unit

From 2011 to the present, Li Qing has done "window" for more than ten years.

From the initial regular four -square frames to stitching and re -creation, the form and content of the "window" are becoming more and more rich. "In front of the painting, the sense of existence is very strong, forming a special sense of form and abstraction." Li Qing told us.

Li Qing Studio

Where does the window come from?

In his studio, the large and small, small windows collected from all over the country are full of popularity.

The earliest batch of windows were found by his demolition site in Hangzhou. Slowly, there are more channels for collecting. There are always friends notifying him, "I have old windows there, do you need?" Sometimes it was enough for a trip, which was almost enough for a year or two.

Li Qing said that he likes "sitting there every day to look at my pane", and then imagine what kind of scenes are suitable for them.

Li Qing, "Window · Lighthouse", 2011

In the earliest window painting, Li Qing used the simplest and four -grid old window.

In 2011, the "Window · Lighthouse" was very concise: at the seaside of the night, a bouquet of light was shot by the lighthouse. The special thing is that there is a seam in the middle of the window to fill it with pigments. From the side, although the picture is in different planes, it is continuous.

In Li Qing's view, when pushing this window, it is like "the secret of painting."

Gradually, windows and pictures are becoming more and more complicated.

Li Qing, "Back Window · (S) Top", 2020

In 2020, Li Qing first used a more complicated hollow pane. In "(S) TOP", the tower spire of Shanghai Jinmao Building is painted, which adds a few neon light letters "TOP".

Li Qing said, "You can understand that there is a" S "letter here, which is just blocked by the pillars in the middle of the window. This is like a dual meaning text game: one thing when it reaches TOP, it may be Stop (Stop). "

In Li Qing's view, the entire "window" series is a kind of question of his painting ontology, adding Western perspective as an entity to painting.

"When the audience stands in front of the old window, it will evoke the imagination of the past time and space -and this imagination is misplaced with the contemporary architecture painted in the" window "again."

Li Qing, "Qu and Zhi", 2017-2018

Li Qing, "Front Design", 2021

From 2021 to 2022, he began to create his new series of "frame -shaped paintings". Just as its name, this series is a "frame" that is a painting in itself, drawing another painting.

In this year's new works, Li Qing has put more attention to the new buildings in China in recent years, and in the new trend of architectural aesthetics, it continues the thinking of contemporary consumerism and aesthetic traditions. Li Qing, "Our Dome", 2022

Li Qing has chosen a lot of popular "net red buildings", which is very recognizable. He showed this kind of visual impact to the extreme.

Li Qing, "Suspending Bank", 2022

"Suspending Bank", a bank floating in the air, is actually Hangzhou's CITIC Bank Building, designed by Norman Foster, a new landmark building in Hangzhou in recent years.

Li Qing, "Anya", 2021

The small auditorium in the "Anya" picture is a place for young people to go to Qinhuangdao for leisure tourism. I like to take pictures on social media to take pictures.

The external images of these frames may be the intercepted characters from the illustrations of commercial advertisements and publications, all of which show a worldly and consumerism atmosphere.

Social characters in women and "Dome" on the beach can reflect the current urban people, especially the middle -class emerging lifestyles.

In the "frame painting", the characters, the environment and architecture are all arranged in a picture. Li Qing views the "frame painting": "People take the purpose of consumption 'to possess' building ... Now , Architecture and this lifestyle shaped each other. When I was drawing these buildings and characters, I actually had ridicule and teasing. "

Li Qing, "SPA Roam 2021", 2021

Li Qing also further deformed the combination of "frame painting" and "window" series. The work is not only a frame -shaped painting, but also the window frame in the "painting", and the plane is constantly broken.

In "SPA Roaming 2021", the surrounding border presents a series of aesthetic elements in contemporary design home and space design, combined with the scenes in the science fiction movie "Roaming Space 2001".

Li Qing let the future science and technology element and have some dialogue with the metal water faucet in the SPA museum. In the "window" in the central part, the spherical building is full of net red wind. A pair of men and women are soaked in the water in the hot spring pool. The neon lights in the small window on the right window flash the words "SPA" in ambiguously.

The whole scene is not only a satire on consumerism, but also the discussion of contemporary aesthetics and future aesthetics.

Li Qing, the exhibition "magnify" scene, Almin London, 2020

Born in 1981, Li Qing, who is longer than the hometown of calligraphy and painting, has stayed in Hangzhou to work and live in Hangzhou after graduating from Graduate Graduate.

In addition to painting oil, Li Qing also made photography and recorded the "Hangzhou House" as a file.

Through the house, what he wants to know is that in the process of rapid development, many people have completed the transformation from farmers to citizens, and what changes in their aesthetics.

"The style of those Hangzhou houses may mix the style of many different regions and times, with the style of Bauhaus, the traditional Chinese style, and the glass curtain wall such as a particularly exaggerated modern style. Form vault. This aesthetic process is particularly interested in. "

Li Qing, "Hangzhou House 49 and 50", 2019

Looks like ordinary photography works, he actually spent a lot of time to take pictures. First of all, the time point is very special. When you have been removed around a house, only one is left.

Secondly, the requirements for the weather are also very harsh. There must be no sun or rain. You can only shoot on cloudy days, so as to capture the color and state of the house itself very faithfully.

Artist childhood photo

Li Qing's parents are teachers who love literature and art, and have cultivated his cultivation of art from an early age.

"My dad likes art and photography very much. My mother likes to recite and music. They feel that a boy is always not good to be playful outside, so I let me go to the painting class in the first grade of elementary school. Goldfish, draw a chick. "

Later, Li Qing fell in love with painting and felt that it was cool. He passed the Hangzhou Academy of Fine Arts of Hangzhou and graduated from the Graduate Oil Painting Department to graduate.

Li Qing claims to be "a very lucky person". On the professional road, he did not take a lot of bumpy detours.

In the first year of graduate students in 2005, he participated in the important three years of Nanjing's "Future Archeology" and received a very good response in the industry. After that, he cooperated with the gallery and naturally became a professional artist.

Li Qing, "Everyone is looking for faults · No. 3 (two pictures are different)", 2005

Li Qing, "Everyone is looking for faults · No. 5 (two pictures are different)", 2005

At the three years of the exhibition, Li Qing first appeared in the seven works that were concerned about, which was the "Everyone to find faults" series.

Just like the "finding fault" game that everyone is well known, Li Qing also reminded the audience two different pictures in the title, allowing the audience to observe and participate in the works.

Li Qing, "Everyone is looking for faults · Mirror (there are nine differences in two pictures)", 2005

The source of the photos is different, some are photos taken by Li Qing themselves, and some are pictures on the news media. But no matter which work, the two paintings are not "original pictures."

For example, "Mirror" records a discarded dressing table by the flower bed under the apartment that Li Qing once lived. But using traces, the person in the mirror is his fiction. This series seems to be "game", but there is such a deep meaning behind it: painting is an inevitable art. "Even if a painting is copied, each stroke is different. There are no exactly the same painting in this world."

Li Qing, "Love and the same statue of mutual destroy", 2015

"Mutual and the same image" is also a similar way to play. It looks like two paintings "draw yourself".

When the painting was finished and the pigment was not dry, Li Qing faced each other face to face, stacking it together like a pioneering. After the separation, it is two works presented on the right.

Li Qing, "Simultaneous Destroy and the same statue · Leslie Cheung", 2007

For example, in "Leslie Cheung", the original picture on the left, one is his daily photo, and the other is the appearance of his in the movie "Farewell My Concubine", which is equivalent to the role he played with him. Selands and blend.

When the work is exhibited in the exhibition hall, it will appear in a four -piece form. Two of them are photos of the original painting, and the two are "destroyed" works, forming a delicate tension in the space.

Li Qing, the exhibition "magnify" scene, Almin London, 2020

During the interview, Li Qing has always emphasized that his series of works are like a maze in his own opinion, and they will continue to repeat, but every time it repeats, the strength is constantly overlapping in new works, and it is constantly confirming each other.

"I want to try to be a Borges -style painter. All his writing constitutes a maze of time and space. This imagination refreshes the awareness of people's ways to tell a story at that time, intertwined with modernization to people The description of the alienation situation later. "

He has always hoped that his work can give the audience a refreshing feeling in time and space.

"Li Qing: Back Window" exhibition site, Shanghai Prada Rongzhai, Photography: Zhu Hai, 2019, the building drawn in the central work "Fan Window · Rongzhai" below

When we asked the exhibition that made Li Qing's most impressive, he did not hesitate to say that it was a solo exhibition in Shanghai Rongzhai in 2019. His work seems to be integrated into the building and talks with Shanghai's history.

"The personality of Rongzhai itself is very strong, and my work and this space are not only a relationship between countermeasures and coordination. What I want to do is to use Rongzhai's environment, decoration, history, and stories to fictional stories. Let the new and old stories intertwined. "

Li Qing, "Carpet", "Li Qing: Back Window" exhibition site, Shanghai Prada Rongzhai, 2019, Photography: Zhu Hai

In addition to the "Window" based on Rongzhai Space, Li Qing is most satisfied with another carpet work in Ballroom.

The image printed on the carpet is that after the house on the suburbs of Hangzhou was demolished, the exposed crushing floor tiles and ruins on the ground were "a very rough reality after demolition in reality". Essence

Li Qing in the studio

Li Qing's working status is actually quite like an office worker "Nine to 5". After sending the child to school in the morning, he will go to the studio and start the day of creation. In my spare time, he loves to read books and watch Antonio's movies. When creating, he also likes to listen to books and music.

Li Qing's "time and space maze" will continue to expand this year. There may be a exhibition at the end of the year, and several group exhibitions are also preparing. He specifically mentioned that he still has some like -minded window frames staying in Suzhou because the epidemic has not been taken back for the time being.

"Overall, there is a methodical life." Li Qing looks optimistic and determined to work and life in the second half of the year.

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