Liu Jianhua

China

Born 1962 in Jiangxi Jian, China. He started working in ceramics at Jingdezhen, a famous pottery pottery, and studied at Jingdezhen Ceramics Academy, the largest ceramic university in the Orient.
After graduating in 1989, he consistently used ceramics and created works reflecting the country's unstable economy and society with a long history. He is one of the contemporary artists representing the internationally active China, with many presentations at the Moscow Biennale 2007, Sydney Biennale 2010, Gwangju Biennale 2012 (Korea) and museums and galleries. In Japan, he exhibited at the 2005 "East Asian Contemporary Art" (Tokyo, Mori Art Museum) 2015 "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale", and has a permanent work at the Towada Art Museum.

武蔵野美術大学大学院修了。
80年代の活動当初から鉄という素材に魅了され、溶断と溶接を繰り返しながら作品を制作している。
素材本来の硬質感や重量感、彫刻＝塊という概念からも解放され、空間を変容させていく。
“場”を深く観察し、可視、不可視に関わらずそこに存在するものを取り込み、
独自の世界を構築する。
近年は石膏、ガラスなど異素材の作品も発表。
主な受賞歴に、芸術選奨文部大臣新人賞、毎日芸術賞、中原悌二郎賞。

Born 1962 in Jiangxi Jian, China. He started working in ceramics at Jingdezhen, a famous pottery pottery, and studied at Jingdezhen Ceramics Academy, the largest ceramic university in the Orient.
After graduating in 1989, he consistently used ceramics and created works reflecting the country's unstable economy and society with a long history. He is one of the contemporary artists representing the internationally active China, with many presentations at the Moscow Biennale 2007, Sydney Biennale 2010, Gwangju Biennale 2012 (Korea) and museums and galleries. In Japan, he exhibited at the 2005 "East Asian Contemporary Art" (Tokyo, Mori Art Museum) 2015 "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale", and has a permanent work at the Towada Art Museum.