This collection by Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong was created during the 2020 pandemic and featured in an online exhibition by the Lisson Gallery. The project captures the changing landscape of New York through watercolor paintings, set against the backdrop of the first wave of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement. The book includes illustrations, photographs, and drawings, as well as essays by a curator from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Liu’s own diary entries, providing a deep record of this historic moment.
Pages : 112 pages
Size : 28×31cm (softcover)
・As the book is on display in-store, we cannot guarantee perfect condition.
Liu Xiaodong is a prominent contemporary Chinese artist, renowned for his large-scale figurative paintings. His work often explores themes of social and human realities, depicting changing social environments both within China and abroad, as well as the lives of individuals, the working class, and everyday people. Liu adopts an approach that involves traveling to locations and creating his art based on direct observation, which lends his paintings a strong sense of immediacy and social commentary. His depictions of people and landscapes vividly reflect the complex aspects of modern Chinese society and the realities of human life.
