Liu Guofu
Liu Guofu was born in 1964 in Nanjing, China, and graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Nanjing Institute of Arts in 1985. With a unique artistic language that is at once sensual and spiritual, Liu Guofu is one-of-a-kind in the Chinese contemporary art world. His oil paintings have been exhibited in many major cities. Highlights include a group exhibition in Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany in 2014, a solo show in 2011 that toured the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing, Today Art Museum, Beijing, and the Shanghai Art Museum; In the same year, he also participated in the Parallel Exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale. He was commissioned by MGM Cotai to create a large-formatted painting for the MGM Cotai Chairman’s Collection which will be permanently displayed in Macau. His paintings were collected by Shanghai Art Museum, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum in Nanjing and Zhuzhong Museum of Art in Beijing.
His painting possesses classic characters of Modernism, the theme bases on city and person, hero and tragedy, ideal and desire, soul and save. Exploration in art can be seen in his artworks, containing the solid shape and vivid brush strokes. Between superimposed strokes, the hills and clouds emerged vaguely yet in a fading way. In the blank space, elegance and eternity name it, restrained colors put people in loneliness and poetry, allowing us to imagine via the mist.
Liu Guofu was born in 1964 in Nanjing, China, and graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Nanjing Institute of Arts in 1985. With a unique artistic language that is at once sensual and spiritual, Liu Guofu is one-of-a-kind in the Chinese contemporary art world. His oil paintings have been exhibited in many major cities. Highlights include a group exhibition in Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany in 2014, a solo show in 2011 that toured the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing, Today Art Museum, Beijing, and the Shanghai Art Museum; In the same year, he also participated in the Parallel Exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale. He was commissioned by MGM Cotai to create a large-formatted painting for the MGM Cotai Chairman’s Collection which will be permanently displayed in Macau. His paintings were collected by Shanghai Art Museum, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum in Nanjing and Zhuzhong Museum of Art in Beijing.
His painting possesses classic characters of Modernism, the theme bases on city and person, hero and tragedy, ideal and desire, soul and save. Exploration in art can be seen in his artworks, containing the solid shape and vivid brush strokes. Between superimposed strokes, the hills and clouds emerged vaguely yet in a fading way. In the blank space, elegance and eternity name it, restrained colors put people in loneliness and poetry, allowing us to imagine via the mist.
