Liu Yufei

Born in Chengdu, China in 2001, graduated from the High School Affiliated to the Central Academy of Fine Arts and studied in the Fifth Studio of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. 

For Liu Yufei, painting is the endless production of images. Continuously extract, mix, combine, and cut out concepts, diagrams, formulas, and elements from history: miniature paintings and landscapes, oppositional balance and dancers' dynamic lines, palindrome poems, and Tibetan Buddhist iconography, etc. , and reconstruct them into comprehensive units: geometric shapes, posture lines, specific colors, and thereby deduce local situations. Among them, composition (design) means the arrangement of comprehensive units on the picture: their free movement and blooming relative to the background, and a strict and even programmed relationship between them. This is the direction of his painting: it is not to reach the hometown of identity or the end of a certain identity through the complicated appropriation of cultural symbols. Rather, it is about dancing energetically among the ravines of images and the constellations of symbols. Perhaps, a new space will be born in the infinite gestures of dance, and extended and expanded through strict painting procedures.