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24/9/2013

Liu Xiaodong / Tatsuo Miyajima

Lisson Gallery, London

Liu Xiaodong
27 September – 2 November 2013

For his first exhibition in the UK, the Lisson Gallery has invited renowned Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong (pronounced ‘Shiow-dong’) to London to produce a new body of work for his inaugural show with the gallery. Over a period of six weeks, Liu has embedded himself in a nearby community, documenting his encounters with others, much as he has done on previous projects, while living and painting among residents of Tibet, Japan, Italy, Cuba and Israel. As part of his direct and conceptual approach to painting, Liu writes and draws in a journal and takes photographs before building a temporary studio in each location he visits, in order to paint en plein air or ‘xiesheng’ as it is known in Chinese.

For his most recent major body of work, The Hotan Project (2012-13), exhibited at the Today Art Museum in Beijing earlier this year, Liu produced a quartet of monumental canvases and numerous over-painted photographs in and around the notorious opencast jade mines and the devastated landscapes of a remote area of China’s largest, westerly province of Xinjiang, close to Tajikistan, Pakistan and Afghanistan. His Hotan pictures capture a group of workers digging for increasingly rare jade deposits and highlight the ethnic and social tensions between the predominantly Muslim locals, the Uygur, and the ruling Han Chinese to whom the precious stones are generally sold to, either as carved objects or as an alternate form of currency. In the past, the artist has chronicled the realities of modern China, in depictions of villages destroyed in the construction of the Three Gorges Dam for Three Gorges: Displaced Population (2003-06), while Out of Beichuan, Into Taihu (2010) was painted amid the rubble of the Sichuan earthquake.

A sense of proximity to his subject matter is vital to Liu, who states that, ‘My only goal is to confront people and see them as they really are.’ The artist’s immersive method of individual and collective portraiture results in pieces that have participatory and performative dimensions, while their scale often matches that of filmmaking, an activity Liu is well versed in, having previously worked as an actor in Wang Xiaoshuai’s acclaimed The Days, or else as producer and subject of award-winning documentaries about his own practice. Liu’s London project will be documented by filmmaker Sophie Fiennes, who has also filmed the German artist Anselm Kiefer at work as well as a profile of Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek.

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Tatsuo Miyajima
I-Model
27 September – 2 November 2013

Lisson Gallery presents its third solo exhibition of Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima, an immersive and interactive installation comprising three new bodies of work based on his ongoing use of numerical displays constructed from light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

The show’s title, I-Model, refers to Miyajima’s collaboration with an artificial life expert, Professor Takashi Ikegami of Tokyo University, which has resulted in a computer programme that generates number sequences responding to the rhythms and speeds of others in the system. Instead of a collection of randomised counting circuits, these networks or clusters of flashing digits come together to create intelligent, ‘living’ organisms, which Miyajima calls Corps Sans Organe after Antonin Artaud’s term for an ideal, virtual body that could function independently from the interconnectivity of its constituent parts.

The Rhizome series (all works 2013), are similarly complex and hypnotic works, formed of glittering grids or panels of coloured LED numbers, also following Ikegami’s unpredictable logic processors. Lisson Gallery is also debuting Miyajima’s seductively red leather-clad structure, Life Palace (Tea Room) (2013), which occupies an entire gallery and invites one viewer at a time to step into a domed constellation of blue lights, with numbers glowing and blinking in the darkened space. This personal, meditative isolation chamber reinforces Miyajima’s Buddhist-infused philosophies about time and contemplation, reflecting the cycle of life through the progression from 1 to 9.

For the full press releases please see the attached documents.

About Lisson Gallery
Lisson Gallery is one of the most influential and longest-running international contemporary art galleries in the world. Established in 1967 by Nicholas Logsdail, it pioneered the early careers of important Minimal and Conceptual artists, such as Sol LeWitt and Richard Long, as well as those of significant British sculptors from Anish Kapoor and Tony Cragg to a younger generation led by Ryan Gander and Haroon Mirza. Lisson Gallery represents 42 of the most innovative and exciting artists working today, including six winners of the Turner Prize and many recipients of the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale. With two exhibition spaces in London, one in Milan and an office in New York, the gallery supports and develops artists globally, including Marina Abramovič, Allora and Calzadilla, Ai Weiwei, Gerard Byrne, Liu Xiaodong, Tatsuo Miyajima, Rashid Rana, Pedro Reyes and Santiago Sierra. The Lisson Presents programme also extends a legacy of curatorial innovation beyond the gallery spaces, working with institutions and artists to present new initiatives around the world.

Photo, film and interview opportunities with China’s preeminent painter, Liu Xiaodong, around his first-ever UK exhibition of paintings.

The people featured in the new paintings will also be in attendance and available for photographs and comment.

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TIME AND DATE: 9.30AM, Wednesday 25 September 2013
ADDRESS: Lisson Gallery, 29 Bell Street, London, NW1 5BY
Press preview continues until 1pm.

The preview also provides the opportunity to view the concurrent exhibition by Tatsuo Miyajima, who has been using artificial life technology to create a new series of light works. The artist will also be available for questions and photographs.

Coffee and pastries will be served from 9.30am.

Lisson Gallery
29 Bell Street, London, NW15BY
52 - 54 Bell Street, London, NW1 5DA
Opening Hours: Monday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 11am-5pm

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