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PRESS RELEASE
To Arts and Features Editors
For Immediate Release
30 September 2015
Osage is off to China International Gallery Exposition 2015 with

Li Xinping
Booth

A38Dates

October 8 – 11, 2015

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Address

Thursday, 8 October
5pm to 10pm
Friday, 9 October
10am to 7pm
Saturday, 10 October
10am to 7pm
Sunday, 11 October
10am to 5pm
China National Convention Centre (Hall 3&4),No.7 Tianchen East Road,
Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

Osage Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the 11th edition of the China
International Gallery Exposition (CIGE). Osage will be presenting a solo booth by Beijing
based artist Li Xinping, debuting a selection of his new oil on canvas works.
Li Xinping’s paintings incorporate elements from various cultural and academic
disciplines, delving into the relationships between mankind’s existence and theunderlying laws of the universe. His works are often comprised of depictions offigurative characters as well as geometricized or deconstructed abstract figures inunearthly spaces. These reference concepts presented in classical Western and Chinese
texts, such as philosophical works by Arthur Schopenhauer, mythologies Genesis and The
Classic of Mountains and Seas, novel Dream of the Red Chamber, as well as different
mathematical or scientific theories. Through movement, as well as the interplay andrelationships between each other, the characters depicted visualize the underlying lawsof nature governing human life.
The selection of Li’s newest works to be shown in this year’s CIGE continues hisidiosyncratic approach and are exemplary of his latest exploration of the principles ofphysics and mathematics. In the eight-meter large-scale painting Unified-field, a group ofhollow figures shaped by fragments of skin float along a web of lines and geometricalpatterns in an abstracted space. With a title hinting at the unified field theory coined by
Einstein, it appears that it is an imaginary scene of the universe’s operating system,
triggering reflections on the impalpable essence of the universe and humankind’sexistence as dominated under its mechanism.
Further exhibits on display will include Fixed-point which depicts various fragmental
bodies drawn towards a central point on the canvas, analogizing the fixed-point concept
in mathematics to desire, the universal driving force of all individuals’ lives. Anotherwork, Periodic law takes inspiration from the concept of the Penrose stairs created by
Lionel Penrose and Roger Penrose, portraying three suspending figures forming acontinuous loop with their bodies. The bodies represent the fundamental elements that
operate in an endless circle, constituting the world we live in.
ABOUT LI XINPINGLi Xinping was born in 1959 in Beijing, China where he is currently based. He completed
his BFA with top honours at Art College of Henan University in 1982 and Postgraduate
Studies at Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1986, before obtaining his MFA at SaintPetersburg State Art and Industry Academy in 1995. Li has been featured in a number ofsolo exhibitions including In A Time Of Love And War: Li Xinping (Osage Gallery, HongKong, Shanghai, 2014–2015), Machine in the Body (Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, 2011),
Trans+Fusion (Osage Gallery, Singapore, 2008), Of Harvest Moons and Enchanted Lovers:
Chinese Myths and Legends (Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, 2005), as well as a number ofgroup exhibitions, including, Oriental Visual–Sino-South Korea Contemporary Art(Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2007), SUSI: Key to Chinese Art Today–
Exploration & Discovery (National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines, 2006)
and Enlightenment from the Ancient State of Lou Lan (10th National Art Exhibition, China,2004).
ABOUT OSAGE GALLERYOsage Gallery was established in Hong Kong in 2004 and grew quickly to become one ofAsia’s largest commercial gallery groups. Osage has become well known in the art worldfor its uncompromising support for the most challenging and critically thoughtprovoking contemporary art.
Osage Gallery is curatorially driven with a particular focus on contemporary Asian arts.
It aims to be a catalyst for the creative expression of the artists and the active
engagement of audiences by embracing a global, multidisciplinary and diverse approachto the creation, presentation and interpretation of a diverse network of practices andworks. It examines the questions that shape and inspire us as individuals, and ourcultures and communities through high quality programmes of research, exhibition andpublication.
Osage operates a major space in Hong Kong in the fast developing central business
district of East Kowloon. Osage Hong Kong is in an industrial building, which can beconfigured for a variety of artistic encounters. The raw space allows for the explorationand presentation of experimental and innovative works in all media–including
performance, installation, interactive multimedia and moving images. Osage Hong Kongcombines 10,000 square feet of interior gallery space with 5,000 square feet outdoor
terrace. Osage Shanghai is currently used for an artist residency programme and iscomprised of two floors of space, totaling 10,000 square foot. Sporting a five-meter highceiling, Osage Beijing is a 1,500 square feet space that houses a studio residency
programme.
Osage Gallery has gained wide international recognition for the quality of its
programmes and was the first Hong Kong gallery to be invited to feature at theStatements section of Art Basel, Basel in 2011, the Spotlight section at Frieze Masters inLondon in 2012, Arte Fiera in Bologna, Italy, 2014, Art Cologne in Germany, 2014, and isone of the first Hong Kong galleries to participate in Moving Image New York, 2014.
Osage has also participated in Art Hong Kong from 2008–2012 and at Art Basel, Hong
Kong from 2013–2015.
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MEDIA ENQUIRIESGrace Lam (Osage Hong Kong)
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Elva Xie (Osage Shanghai)
elvaxie@osagegallery.com | +86 135 8192 9608
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Unified-field2015
Oil on canvas
350 x 800 cm (2 panels, 350 x 400 cm each)
Image courtesy of the artist and Osage Gallery

Fixed-point
2015
Oil on canvas
150 x 150 cm
Image courtesy of the artist and Osage Gallery

Periodic Law
2015
Oil on canvas
150 x 150 cm
Image courtesy of the artist and Osage Gallery