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Press Release
Attention Arts and Features Editors

7 September 2011
For immediate release

Machine in the Body
08.10.2011 – 09.11.2011
Reception: 07.10.2011, 6.00pm to 8.00pm
Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong
Artist: LI Xinping
Curator: Sonja NG
Osage Gallery Kwun Tong is pleased to present Machine in the Body, a solo exhibition by Beijing
based artist Li Xinping.

Life as objectified by worldly beings has been acontinual source of inspiration and driving force
behind Li Xinping's works. For the artist, the notionof the human body in particular serves as a major
platform and vehicle in seeking an understanding
and parallel between the vast realms of Western
philosophy and Chinese culture. The exhibition
explores the paradoxical idea of a force based on
Eastern narrative and Western symbolism that is atonce external yet embedded as an inner mechanism
within Li's painted characters.
Though originally trained in traditional oil painting,
Li’s ever- fluid artistic style in the medium hasspanned across different genres, from decorative,realist, abstract, to experimental. The subject matterAnts, Oil on canvas 2008, Diameter : 230cm
in the paintings ranges from the manifestation ofWestern scientific motifs that spans across astrology and medicine, to traditional myths and folklores
intimately grounded within the contemporary culture of China.
This eclectic combination presented in Li’s works defies easy categorization and more importantly, asa result, has ironically positioned Li to be on the outer skirt of both the traditional and contemporary art
circles in China today. Machine in the Body at the same time will present a selection of new and old,
as well as unfinished works created during Li’s prolific career that will allow the audience to closely
examine the painting process and skillful technique by the artist and at the same time, explores theundefined area in which the artist’s artistic practice situates.
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ABOUT MACHINE IN THE BODY
Artist:LI Xinping

Curator:Sonja NGVenue:

Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong

Address:

5/F, Kian Dai Industrial Building, 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong,Kowloon, Hong Kong

Tel:(852) 2793 4817

Exhibition Duration:

8 October – 9 November 2011

Reception:

7 October 2011 (Friday), 6.00pm

APPENDIX A: ABOUT THE ARTIST
Li Xinping (b. 1959) graduated from Henan University with Top Honors in Fine Arts. He has
subsequently studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing as well as the St. Petersburg Art
Academy in Russia. His works have been presented at notable exhibitions and art fairs in Asia suchas SUSI: Key to Chinese Art Today-Exploration&Discovery (2006) at the National Museum in Manila,
Nokia Singapore Art 1999, and Art Taipei (2008, 2009). Li has twice represented Beijing in theNational Art Exhibition in China. Since 2005, he has had numerous solo exhibitions at the Osage
Galleries in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai with works in the collection of private collectors
from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and overseas. His most recent group exhibition was at the National
Museum of Art in Beijing titled “Glorious Course and Epic Scroll” with the realist painting of Li DaZhao.

APPENDIX B: PRESS IMAGES

Elf Land, Sketch, 2008, 55cm X 30cmEveryday, Oil on canvas, 4 panels, 119cm X 37cm eachImage of He Tu (left panel), Story of Luo Shu (right panel), Oil on canvas, 2011

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