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Lei Xu

Lei Xu (Born 1963) is active/lives in China.  Lei Xu is known for Painting.

Xu Lei was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province in 1963.  He was trained at the Nanjing Art Academy and became a resident painter at the Jiangsu Institute of Chinese Painting upon graduation.  Xu was an active participant in the New Wave movement and his work was exhibited in the China/Avant-Garde Exhibition in Beijing in 1989.

Xu's choice of colour palette strikes viewers in their first impression.  With refined and restrained gongbi technique, Xu portrays his subject, often animals, in a realistic manner, set against mysterious backdrops such as water, curtain and screen.  He constructs a fantastical spatial dimension that gives a domestic and estranged context, alluring viewers to imagine the relationship between the subject and its surrounding.

For Xu what appeals to him is "how to make a game out of cerebral, rhetorical relations among pictorial figures".  This treatment reminds viewers the works by surrealist p   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1072 characters.]  Artist bio

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