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LIU SHUISHI (B. 1962)

The Smart One

    Price Realised USD 125,000
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    LIU SHUISHI (B. 1962)

    The Smart One

    Price Realised USD 125,000
    Price Realised USD 125,000
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    LIU SHUISHI (B. 1962)
    The Smart One
    signed in Chinese and dated '2014/8/9' (on the reverse)
    oil on canvas
    130 x 170 cm. (511⁄8 x 667⁄8 in.)
    Painted in 2014.
    Provenance
    Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
    Private collection, USA
    Literature
    Today Art Museum, Liu Shui Shi: Thinking as Art Media, Beijing, exh. cat. Beijing, 2015, p. 46-47 (illustrated in color).
    Exhibited
    Venice, , The 56th Venice Biennale, View’s Metaphysics in Syrian National Pavilion, 2015.
    New York, Chase Contemporary, Liu Shuishi: Retrospective, September–October 2018.
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    “Being” occupies the vacancy yet contradicts the absence. The unsteadiness of the structure in the two-dimensional graphics represents the uncertainty of a spiritual being’s self-recognition. The momentum that constitutes the red dots is thus made visible, evidencing the present. It is the eternal fluidity of thoughts that makes the thoughts alive and gives it meaning. - Liu Shui Shi
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