Liu Wei

Quick Facts

Full Name	Liu Wei
Occupation	Basketball Player
Date Of Birth	Jan 15, 1980(1980-01-15)
Age	44
Birthplace	Shanghai
Country	People's Republic of China
Birth City	Shanghai
Horoscope	Capricorn

Liu Wei Biography

Liu Wei is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on January 15, 1980 in Shanghai, Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Liu began his career as a member of the subversive movement known as Post-Sense Sensibility. Art trends that had been popular in the early 1990s, such as Political Pop and Cynical Realism, seemed outdated and ineffective to many of the younger generation artists. Later in the 1990s, new art forms such as installation, performance art, video art, and conceptual photography were widely embraced and were used to demonstrate Conceptual art that came to dominate contemporary Chinese art. The 1999 show “Post-sense, Sensibility, Alien Bodies and Delusion” in Shaoyaoju, Beijing, was one that included artists from all over China, notorious for visceral sculptures of human and animal corpses, “borrowed” cadavers juxtaposed with stillborn fetus, severed human arms hanging from meat hooks, and the sounds of a goose, starving to death with its feet glued to the floor. The purpose of the exhibition was to create art that wouldn’t be collected by Western audiences, which reveals the extent of resentment against Western powers. The young generation of artists accused foreign collectors of “plotting to control Chinese art.” The Post- Sense Sensibility artists had a shared distaste for the political idealism and rationality of their predecessors. They embraced irrationality, improvisation, intuition, and aimed create extreme experiences. Their shows were held in makeshift venues between 1999 and 2003, and in an effort to have spontaneous context-specific responses, their exhibitions were premised on self-imposed rules that each artist reacted to individually at the exhibition site. Since China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, the artists have become more tolerant of Western collectors.” Liu Wei’s contribution to the 1999 exhibition was a multichannel video called Hard to Restrain. In the video, naked human figures scurry around “like insects under a spotlight”.

Liu Wei has produced artworks consisting of everyday “readymade” materials. Art series such as Anti-Matter (2006) and As Long as I See It (2006) are composed of household objects like washing machines, exhaust fans, and televisions, many of which have been altered, cut out, or “blown apart” by some unspeakable force. These works speak to the mass production and consumerism of modern society, using objects that represent the luxury of contemporary capitalist society. His use of everyday household objects and “readymades” also suggests a reinvestment in materials. The works demand that, even as new technologies and machines produce new and more ephemeral types of knowledge, humans acknowledge the forms of the everyday objects.

In an interview from 2010, Liu Wei was asked, “How would you define your work?” to which he replied, “I couldn’t. There’s no way to define it.”

He has shown work in exhibitions including 21: World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam, Cinema du Reel at the Pompidou Centre in France, Over One Billion Served at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, and Between Past and Future at the International Center for Photography in New York City. His dog chew structures were in 2010 once again shown during the exhibition Dreamlands at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

At Liu Wei’s studio in Beijing, little of the artwork is performed by the artist. In 2006, Liu began hiring nearby villagers to assist with the artworks and the number of workers in his studio has continued multiplying. All of his artworks are now produced by teams of assistants and fabricators. Even Liu’s representational paintings are digitally generated by the artist and then transferred to a canvas, where they are filled in by studio workers.

Liu Wei Net Worth

Liu Wei is one of the richest Basketball Player from People's Republic of China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Liu Wei 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Liu graduated from China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 1996. He stated that he “really began doing art after [he] graduated in 1996.” Between 1996 and 1998, he experienced a post-graduate period of transition in which he was producing idealistic oil paintings. In 1998 and 1999, he also began producing installation works as well as video projects. The majority of these video projects were related to the human body.He described these works as impulsive and intuitive; works of a still young and impulsive artist.

After graduation, he returned to Beijing, where he turned from painting to experiments in other types of media, such as videography. He participated in several DIY exhibitions while supporting himself as an editor at Beijing Youth Daily. In 1999, he was involved with a group of subversive artists known as the “Post-Sense Sensibility” group and participated in an exhibit known as “Post-Sense, Sensibility, Alienated Bodies, and Delusion.” Then in 2003, he was invited by Hou Hanru to participate in the Fifth Shenzhen International Public Art Exhibition, which was to be called “The Fifth System: Public Art in the Age of Post-planning.” Before, Liu Wei had only worked collaboratively with other student artists. This was his first opportunity to create a solo project with an internationally known curator. At the exhibition, he initially meant to procure and transport an airplane boarding bridge to the exhibition site. However, the endeavor was too expensive and too ambitious and never came to pass. This was his first encounter with “system” and its ability to impede on his work. He has cited the mishap as a turning point in his artistic career towards a more pragmatic approach. By 2006, Liu Wei began producing the kinds of works that would characterize his art for the next decade: art concerned with objects of daily life and the systems that govern everyday existence.

A particular constellation of ideas have been circulating within Liu Wei’s artwork since 2006. First, Liu has used urban architecture and city landscapes in many of his works, such as Love it! Bite it! or Purple Air, and Outcast. His works present ideas of corruption, alienation, or the immense verticality of a megalopolis’s infrastructure. About the influence of the city on his art, Liu Wei has said, “Cities are reality; all of China is a city under construction, and of course this influences me.” He also has acknowledged that the reality of the city is powerful and that we “feel numbed most of the time.” Liu Wei’s city is ahistorical. It shows mindless material changing, decay, demolition, and construction. Thus, people are subjected to a constantly changing environment and an overwhelmingly perpetual present. In Liu Wei’s city, a person can no longer organize his or her experiences based on a historical narrative. One can only live in the chaotic present.

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Facts & Trivia

Liu Ranked on the list of most popular Basketball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in People's Republic of China. Liu Wei celebrates birthday on January 15 of every year.

What is Liu Wei known for?

Biography. Born in Beijing, China in 1965, Liu Wei studied printmaking at Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts. After graduating, Liu Wei quickly became known as a prominent figure in China’s “cynical realism” movement.

What happened to Liu Wei?

Liu Wei lost his arms at the age of 10 after touching a high-voltage wire during a game of hide-and-seek. He regained consciousness after 45 days of critical condition.

What medium does Liu Wei use?

During the filming of the video, Liu Wei discuss with his assistants details of a sculpture made of wood, books and metal. He works across a range of media, including painting, installation, sculpture and film.

Where is Liu Xiaodong now?

Liu Xiaodong lives and works in Beijing but has undertaken projects in Tibet, Japan, Italy, the UK, Cuba and Austria, and closer to home, in Jincheng, in the north-eastern province of Liaoning, China, where he was born in 1963.

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