李文强
Li Wenqiang is extremely sensitive to those which have changed our lives.  Electronic games, cheap packaging materials, industrial scaffoldings & whose which have brought him depression, pleasure & restriction are his main creative sources of inspiration.  His installation works using packaging materials reflected the kind of embarrassment we have encountered in reality.  Although we have already entered post-industrial era, packaging has just become part of our lives not so long ago.  Packaging stimulates desire, bringing torture as well as giving rise to showing off.  Packaging doesn’t only involve materials but also human beings.  Packaging human beings represents certain feedback on us by external influences.  In this desire driven society, man’s true consciousness has been over-shadowed by technological environment.  Our behavior is more or less waiting to be approved by society.  To what extent are desire fro materials, packaging & restrictions what we hope for?  In his most tedious works in terms of color & shapes, Li Weqiang vividly created a cosmopolitan “packaged” colony.  The artist truly revealed our predicament – a “packaged new race”.
LI Wenqiang
(b. 1984)
 
Education:
2008
B.F.A.    China Academy of Art    Hangzhou    China
 
Individual Exhibition:
2009
Tuopishi    55    Shanghai    China (in collaboration with Li Wenqiang)
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Spring Outing    55    Shanghai    China
2009
metaphors of un/real Animamix Biennale 2009-2010    Museum of Contemporary Art     Shanghai    China (in collaboration with Zhang Wei)
Continuation    55    Shanghai    China
2008
Getting Close    Black Bridge Art Space    Beijing    China
囧—Expression and Attitude    Duolun Museum of Contemporary Art    Shanghai    China
Transparency    True Color Museum    Suzhou    China
V., Very...    55    Shanghai    China
2007
Century Star    China Academy of Art    Hangzhou    China
Just That You Know    Hangzhou    China
2006
Century Star    China Academy of Art    Hangzhou    China
 
Selected Art Fairs:
2009
VOLTA5    Basel    Switzerland
PULSE    New York    U.S.A.
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