LI XUBAI (B. 1940)
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LI XUBAI (B. 1940)

Spring Streams in Mist and Rain

Details
LI XUBAI (B. 1940)
Spring Streams in Mist and Rain
Hanging scroll
Ink and colour on paper
130 x 35 cm. (51 1/8 X 13 3/4 in.)
Executed in 1996
Provenance
Acquired by the present owner from Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong.
Literature
Summoning the Seasons: the Art of Li Xubai, Kaikodo, New York, 1999, pl. 23.
Exhibited
New York, Kaikodo, Summoning the Seasons: the Art of Li Xubai, 16 October-3 November, 1999.
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Further details
LI XUBAI (B. 1940)
Selected exhibitions
2013 University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (solo)
2012 Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (group)
2011 The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (group)
2006 Fujian Fine Arts Academy, Fuzhou, China (solo)
2005 He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (solo)
2003 Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (group)
1998 The Chinese American Fine Arts Society, Boston, USA (solo)
Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, China (group)

Notable collections
Asian American Broadcast Network, Boston, USA
Chinese American Fine Arts Society, Boston, USA
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Born in Fuzhou in 1940, Li Xubai is a lover of Chinese classics and worked as editor for art and collecting magazines The World of Collectors and Dragon Roots when he moved to Hong Kong in 1979. Li now lives in Canada and spends much time painting and travelling in various parts of China to gain inspiration for his artistic creations. Li Xubai is a rare example of a contemporary painter and a poet. He uses negative space to convey snow, streams, rivers, clouds, and mists, radiating a glowing light that contrasts sharply with the darker tones of mountains and vegetation. In the style of classical landscape painting, Li does not employ perspective; mountains flow in mid-air without revealing the peak or base. Li's landscapes are built of unconventional shapes, formed by jagged lines that twist and turn at abrupt angles. This exotic, geometric perception provides a strange, almost digital sense of modernity in his work.

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