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Li Chevalier

France

Painting, Ink on Canvas

Size: 70.9 W x 70.9 H x 2.4 D in

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CLAUDIO CRESCENTINI LI CHEVALIER, ART IN BETWEEN By observing the works created over time by Li Chevalier, critical memory risks losing itself in a labyrinth of stylistic references and icons that fail to account for the essence of its work, the axis of interpretation moving towards unsuspected creative horizons. By different mental approaches, Li drifts away from the stereotypes of oriental preciosity, which she transcends through her gestures, mixtures, eclecticism and pathos. The artist has lived in Europe, more precisely in France since the second half of the 80s. The dramatic events in China at that time clearly decided her to base her creative work on a dream world, full of oriental drift, forms, landscapes that feed partly on Zen culture and painting; an aesthetics that is absorbed and then extended between two continents, which also benefits from a precise technique and great inventive skills which, in our opinion, is characteristic of the artist's training at the Saint Martins Central College of Arts and Design London. But beside the sign, there is an equally clear intrusion of philosophy - thought - into the visual field of her art. The harmonious and restrained gesture has been strengthened over the years, especially since the first decade of this century; all this led her to collaborate later with French philosophers such as Luc Ferry and resulted in the introduction into her art practice of a constructive approach that is clearly more personal and autonomous. An explicit example of her new way of understanding and creating is represented by works exhibited between 2010 and 2013 in her major monographic exhibitions in China, the National Art Museum of China (2010), Today Art Museum, Beijing 2010), Shanghai Art Museum (2011), National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) China (2013). In the measured rhythm of her creations, more and more coherent inks are superimposed on previously decidedly more "minimalist" works. While the sign, in its sincerity and gestural expressiveness, seems to be treated and filtered by a stylistic definition that is a little more European, a little less oriental. Moreover, it could not be otherwise for an artist who decided to live and work in the furrow between two parallel cultural and geographical shores, while inclining obliquely towards the European side, even if at first glance it is not so obvious. The Western stamp adopted in its experimentation of different hues for structural purposes does not generate confusion and does not contradict the return of Chevalier to the Chinese ink culture, which is however revisited with a decidedly European capacity of composition which, in our opinion, reveals the intellectual obstinacy of the artist. This deep love of two cultures, between her roots and her new environment, will lead Chevalier to participate in the new artistic movement " Experimental ink painting", clearly identified in the text on the artist by François Jullien in 2014, entitled . Thus she creates an art between east and west, with visual references and regrets that go beyond the indicated division and which leads the artist, especially in recent years, to enrich and broaden her visual search, in installations marked by a strong poetic inspiration and a decisive emotional impact. As in the case of Cantabile per Archi (2013), a work inspired by music from the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, a forest of violins with superimposed signs, lettering, words and paper soaked in ink, life and art - in a seductive version specially created, completely revised and "tailor made " for the MACRO Testaccio in Rome. We are facing an installation which embodies the entire aspiration of Chevalier: its form, its language, its structure and its construction of signs are combined in her program of overcoming the sterile globalizing modernity with the obvious intention to stem the drift of art, or rather of the arts, through the impact of theatrical staging, sound, and image, to recreate an intrinsic artistic and emotional experience. Claudio Crescentini Art Curatro Contemporary Art Museum Rome Director of the exhibitions and major events Department

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Painting:Ink on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:70.9 W x 70.9 H x 2.4 D in

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lI CHEVALIER [ SHI LAN] Li Chevalier [ Shī Lán ] is French artist. Working at the crossroad of Europe and Asia for the past two decades, Major solo exhibitions at Contemporary Art Museum Rome ( Macro ) 2017. Submarine Base Contemporary Art Centre France 2014. National Opera of China (NCPA) 2013. National Art Museum of China 5 NAMOC) (2010), the Shanghai Art Museum (2011), .Her work became part of the permanent collection of the National Art Museum of China and the National Opera of China. Two of her major works became part of the French Embassy's art collection and are hanging presently at the reception salon of the French Residence in Beijing, next to the works of two other French Chinese born artists Zao Wuki, and Zhu Dequn. In 2007, Li Chevalier's work was shown at the Royal Academy of Arts London Summer exhibition. Her works appeared also in some major international art fairs and exhibitions, such as the Art Salon of the French National Fine Art Society at Carrousel du Louvre (2003), l'Art en Capital at the Grand Palais (2007,2011), London Art Fair (2007), Glasgow Art Fair (2008), Northern Art Fair (2008), Shanghai Art Fair (2008), Beijing International Art Fair (2011), the Doha National Art Gallery Al Bida.Her other art events include exhibitions at the Wuhan Art Museum (2010), the New Vision Art Museum (2010), Huantie Art Museum Beijing (2009), Shangshang Art Museum Beijing (2010), Colombia University art gallery, Korean Cultural Art Centre in Beijing. Li Chevalier's experimental ink painting style can be identified by her personal way of incorporating Chinese ink into canvas, blended with pigment, mineral chips, sand and elements of Chinese art such as rice paper and calligraphy. By using such mixed media, she transcends the classical ink-on-paper model. Her work carries a strong oriental aesthetic sensitivity, however embedded in a modern art medium。 Li Chevalier's exhibitions and installations are mostly known for their scenographic design, and for her site-specific spatial compositions which carry theatrical qualities. Emphasis is given on the use of light, environment and sound, but also to the visitors' physical participation in the event;

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