These are the faces you will connect, perhaps later, to the year 2020. The Chinese Olympic swimmer Sun Yang has been suspended in February due to doping for eight years, as well as the basketball player Kobe Bryant who came at the end of January in a helicopter crash. On a crumpled white T-Shirts painted by the Frankfurt-based artist Xue Liu since the beginning of this year, see also heads, which determine the news happening in and around the Corona-crisis.
The face of Queen Elizabeth II, held in April, a memorable speech, worthy of the British Nation, has Liu banned just as skillfully on cloth, such as the face, the eyes of doctor Li Ruifeng from the Chinese city of Wuhan, which warned early of the dangers of the Virus and it triggered lung disease died. The current situation had him motivated, says Liu, the comrade is shown as an attentive time. The new series of works, he goes on, however, is also playful and experimental. His likeness graces one of the tops, while some others are large and painted with natural motifs.
As a stroke of luck
the idea for The series came to him, as he had seen on the Internet happen to be a T-Shirt with a famous movie character, told Liu. It had been definitely expensive. “Merely a head on a white T-Shirt,” he says, and is surprised. As a result, he had decided to so something themselves. He bought cheap T-Shirts, bought fabric paints and started. And when the middle of March of the Lockdown became clear, admitted he was quickly the colour of the fabric Department of a large Frankfurter retailer of artist materials will be empty.
This has proved to be a stroke of luck, because Xue Liu is an independent painter. He dominates the swiftly Painted as well as the fine Formulated. “I can’t paint it bad,” says the 1981 Chinese-Chongqing-born artist. It sounds as if he must justify his. Liu studied at the art Academy of Sichuan in China, he then moved into the stage design class of the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach. In addition, he spent several years at the Frankfurt städel school, from which he graduated as a master student of the painter Christa näher. The list of his individual and group exhibitions is impressively long, the Frankfurt art scene, he is a fixed size.
“To the very train station-quarter”
In his personal manner, he can seem reserved, his sentences are therefore more laconic. In the course of the conversation, but it blooms and reveals a sometimes sharp sense of humour. The focus of his picturesque universe is a space in the municipal Studio building at the East Park road. The shaded, only a little sunlight let into the end of Atelier Liu 2018 has. Best the quiet location of the Studio liked him, close to the Ostparks, he says. The Studio home base, where he had previously worked, it had “been very station district”. Liu’s Atelier looks lovingly furnished. It reminds, different than the Studios of many contemporary artists, neither in a laboratory nor an office. With all the comfort that radiates the Studio, it shows as a space in the artistic work. It houses a lot of materials, books and works.
An eye-catcher on the walls, hanging a portrait of Karl Lagerfeld’s is. With a brisk brushstroke, Liu portrayed the last year of deceased fashion designer. The in 2012 resulting paper work, he show not aware of, but, coincidentally, asserts Liu. His affinity for the fashion world but is not dismissed out of Hand. Also painted handbags, hanging on a wall next to the Ateliertür witnesses. As a painting reason he used mostly second-hand bags, says the artist. He treasures the Broken one. For a time he has painted on used cardboard, and sometimes he had found them. Classic, under reasons, he uses hardly. The last works on Canvas are created in 2018. “I like to try out new materials,” he says.
