Hangyu Li
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Biography
Graduated from the Chinese Department of Zhejiang University and is a national first-class writer. In the 1980s, he focused on writing, a representative of the "Root Seeking School", and winner of the National Outstanding Short Story Award; in the 1990s, he engaged in documentary creation, and a large number of works were published on China Central Television; in 2000, he began to study classical music and film, and is the author of "Record Classics", "Film Language"; In 2008, he began to transform into oil paintings, with bold colors and bold colors, exploring the secrets of life, and opened personal exhibitions in Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places.
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- Date of birth : 1957
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1980 - 1984
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History of Life, Ocean and Cave - Li Hangyu's Solo Exhibition (solo)
Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, 欧阳路 Luxun Park, Hongkou District, Shanghai, China
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2012
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SpreadtrumHistory of Life·Ocean and Cave—Introduction to Li Hangyu’s Personal ExhibitionLi Hangyu, a name that has long been familiar to the literary circle, and one of the representative writers of China's "root-seeking literature" in the 1980s, suddenly broke into the art circle and held a personal exhibition at the Zhu Qizhan Art Museum in Shanghai from the 18th to the 28th of this month! This surprised many people who had read his novels in the past.
In the 1980s, Li Hangyu was famous in the contemporary literary world for his "Gechuanjiang Series" novels such as "The Last Fisherman" and "The Wandering Land", winning a place in the history of contemporary Chinese literature. But as his friend, the famous painter Sun Liang, said, "Hang Yu will always suddenly produce completely different works at some time in the past thirty years, leaving people surprised or fascinated." Since the 1990s, Li Hangyu has been temporarily He put aside novel writing and became obsessed with Western classical music. He became a "super enthusiast" and wrote the more than 500-page "Record Classics", which was very popular and is still an important reference book for many classical music lovers. Later, Li Hangyu devoted himself to film and television art. Not only did he frequently participate in the creation of documentaries for CCTV and local stations, he also studied Chinese and foreign films carefully, wrote "Film Classics", and is still teaching "Film Language" at Zhejiang Science and Technology University. Since 2008, Li Hangyu has made another "magnificent turn" and started painting. In the summer of the same year, he held a small-scale salon exhibition "Emotion·Shape·Color" in Hangzhou.
The group of oil paintings exhibited by Li Hangyu at the Zhu Qizhan Art Museum in Shanghai this time is named "History of Life·Ocean and Cave". Wu Liang, a famous literary and art critic, commented on this: They are "childish, primitive, and self-evident. You approach them in the most natural way of viewing, like a red-haired baby seeing the light of day for the first time. You don't need to pay attention to those complicated concepts - - "History of Life", that is, the history of life that has been Edenized. In Li Hangyu, it is endowed with the illusion of the ocean and caves in a fairy tale, a transparent utopia that escapes complicated explanations and returns to the source of life. This colorful paradise of life transcends. This shore of Li Hangyu's personal memory is quiet and boiling. It is a tiny luminous body in the tunnel of life. It is eternal desire. It is endless generation. It is a silent war. It is a turbulent vortex. It is a carnival dance. It is Blooming in an instant, it is photosynthetic particles, it is molecular exchange, it is protein synthesis, it is biological enzyme crossing, it is ribonucleic acid, it is the pursuit of sperm and the waiting of eggs, it is conception and embryo, it is you, me and him The past life and the next life, it is the rotation and return of all life atoms.”
Li Hangyu's painting exhibition has attracted attention not only because his paintings are full of whimsical ideas and unique painting language, but also because of his unusual involvement in the field of painting as a writer. When talking about why he was suddenly keen on painting, Li Hangyu replied that he believed that “almost all Chinese writers and poets throughout the ages have more or less a yearning and love for visual art in their hearts. After all, we use Chinese characters themselves constitute a kind of visual material. Calligraphy, painting, film and television are all visual arts, and they can all become channels for a writer to release himself at a certain period in his life. "
A friend jokingly called the 55-year-old Li Hangyu a "rookie in the painting world." Li Hangyu responded that this shows that I still have to work hard at painting. But he also said that this does not mean that he will no longer write novels. "I never give up on something that I think is good," he said.
At the opening ceremony of the exhibition on the afternoon of the 18th, many of Li Hangyu’s old friends in Shanghai’s literary circles, including famous writers Wang Anyi, Chen Cun, Sun Ganlu, Ma Yuan, Wu Liang, Zhao Changtian, Cheng Depei, Cheng Yongxin, Shen Hongfei, etc., and famous painter Sun Liang , Wei Xiaorong and other Shanghai and Hangzhou art circles, as well as Li Hangyu's friends from all walks of life in Hangzhou gathered at the Zhu Qizhan Art Museum to congratulate Li Hangyu on the success of this exhibition.
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Exhibition Information | "Sound Poetry of Space" 2017 Li Hangyu New Oil Painting Exhibition
Opposite the gate of Liulangwenying, No. 186, Nanshan Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang
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Exhibition time: 2017/10/29 — 2017/11/12Exhibition location: Opposite the gate of Liulangwenying, No. 186, Nanshan Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang ProvinceExhibition space: Wuzhou Cultural CenterExhibiting artist: Li HangyuOrganizer: Hangzhou Wuzhou Cultural Industry Co., Ltd.
Artist's self-introductionText | Li Hangyu
Paint what I think
I like painting. I also learned to paint when I was a child. I also know that almost all Chinese writers and poets from ancient times to the present have a little love and yearning for visual art in their hearts. Calligraphy, painting, film and television are all visual arts, and they may become a channel for a writer to release himself at a certain period of his life. Because of this, I picked up the paintbrush I used to hold when I was a child and started painting.
The question is: what to paint?
I have carefully studied the albums of many great painters, some of which are complete collections of paintings. Flipping through the first few pages, I found that whether it was Monet, Van Gogh or even Dali, they all painted sketches, still lifes, and portraits when they were young, and they were all very objective, even very realistic. However, as I turned the pages one by one, I gradually realized that the older they got, the more subjective and free-spirited they painted.
So I told myself that I couldn't move from realism to freehand like they did, step by step, but could only jump into subjective painting all at once. I told myself that I would just paint some things that I made up in my mind. Of course, I would try to paint them seriously. I also encouraged myself and said that in front of such exquisite contemporary photography art, what advantages and charms can objective painting and realistic painting have?
And our inner fantasies, accompanied by primitive impulses, are endless and full of power. If we can present them unrestrainedly, both extremely personal and infinitely visual, I think it is a good thing, a beautiful thing, and a very happy thing.
So I did it.
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