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Li Lei 李磊, 金陵花重28, 2017 -
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Li Lei 李磊, 金陵花重25, 2017
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ARTicle | Li Lei's Abstract Art
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Artist Diary | Weird and Wonderful: Li Lei's Porcelain Works
Li Lei shares his recent experiment with Chinese porcelain which he describes as "a medium for poetry" and a way to "look back to the past and look into the future".In the latest Artist Diary, Li Lei shares with us a video journal of his experiments exploring poetic spirits in his creative process of 'playing with porcelain'. To create a... -
Explosion of Colour: A Chinese Abstract Art
Li LeiIn 1996, when Li Lei began exploring Chinese abstract art in both practice and research, he sought to transform it—to combine the core concepts of Chinese culture with the international...
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Li Lei was born in 1965 in Shanghai, where he now lives and works. Li is the former Executive Director of China Art Museum, Shanghai (Shanghai Art Museum) and a Professor at Tongji University. He also works as National First-Class Artist, the Deputy Director of Experimental Art Council in the China Artists Association and is a Visiting Professor at the Fine Art College of Shanghai University.
National Art Museum of China(China), China Art Museum(China), Today Art Museum(China), Hubei Art Museum(China), Shandong Art Museum(China), Shenzhen Art Museum(China), Sichuan Art Museum(China), Guyuan Art Museum of Zhuhai(China), Minsheng Art Museum(China), Z-art Center(China), Museum of Contemporary Art(China), Xuhui Art Museum(China), Ningbo Museum of Art(China), National Exhibition and Convention Centre(China), MGM Cotai Chairman Collection(China).
For over 20 years Li Lei has been engaged in the creation of, and research into, Chinese abstract art. He has endeavoured to combine the core concepts of Chinese culture with the international language of mature abstract art and to create a path for abstract art in China. His painting series includes Zen Flower, Drunken Lake, Shanghai Flower, Memories of Southand The Flame of Pompeii. In 2014, he began to experiment with space integration art, taking spatial narrative, spatial expression and spatial analysis as objectives of his dramatic visual practice. The development in Li Lei’s painting style has been identified as “philosophically eclectic and moderate”, a distinctively Chinese kind of poetic abstraction.
