Liu Jun - HANGZHOU TRIENNIAL OF FIBER ART

Liu Jun

Liu Jun

China

Liu Jun was born in Guangzhou, China in 1968, and received her BFA from Soochow University, and her MFA from Wuhan University of Technology. Liu Jun was a visiting scholar at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. She has been engaging in crossover creative practice of Art and Design. Her works had been selected into the 10th, 11th,12th and 13th National Exhibition of Fine Arts held by the National Art Museum of China, receiving the distinction award in the 10th, the creativity award in the 11th, and awarded as “Works in Beijing” in the 13th. Other awards and honors she received include the Honor Award by Guangdong Artists Association and Silver Award at the 5th “From Lausanne to Beijing” International Fiber Art Biennale, etc. Her artworks had been exhibited by many museums, such as National Art Museum of China, National Museum of China, China Art Museum, National Centre for the Performing Arts. Several of her artworks were collected by Shenzhen Modern Design Museum, China National Silk Museum, etc. Liu is currently a professor and executive director of Cultural & Creative Products Institute at Shenzhen Polytechnic, a member of China Artists Association, an expert advisor of China National Silk Museum Advisory Board, a committee member of the 3rd and 4th China Design Exhibition & Public Art Thematic Exhibition by Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China.

Net Kaleidoscope

Wire

320 × 480 cm

2016

The intention behind the creation of the work Net Kaleidoscope is to explore greater possibilities for the expansion of handcrafts in terms of sense and shape. The interweaving of handcrafts and industrial metal materials endows contemporary style into traditional crocheting, thus reshaping the latter through the transformation of materials. The contrast between hard and lithe, light and shadow, visionary and practical creates an entirely different visual experience. The unique character of the visual language which is conveyed through the interweaving of traditional hand-crocheting and metal cords, implies the intricate relationship between the contemporary and the traditional, both contradictory and blending, thereby succeeding in the exploration of materials, craft, and form while balancing between "preservation" and "reshaping". Net Kaleidoscope is essentially a metaphorical net. Human civilization, life forms, information and material circulation are all achieved through networks. In terms of creative concept, the work tries to explore the graphic composition and spatial relationship of contemporary handicrafts through reacquainting craftsmanship, materials, light and shadow in space, etc. Thus each piece of graphics is unique, the use of weaving makes this work borderless, and in this sense, infinite. So in terms of iconography, such networks may evolve into a comprehensive work, which can be infinitely intertwined into a “canopy’, resembling a “Kaleidoscope” that symbolizes the world.

Net Kaleidoscope

Wire

320 × 480 cm

2016

The intention behind the creation of the work Net Kaleidoscope is to explore greater possibilities for the expansion of handcrafts in terms of sense and shape. The interweaving of handcrafts and industrial metal materials endows contemporary style into traditional crocheting, thus reshaping the latter through the transformation of materials. The contrast between hard and lithe, light and shadow, visionary and practical creates an entirely different visual experience. The unique character of the visual language which is conveyed through the interweaving of traditional hand-crocheting and metal cords, implies the intricate relationship between the contemporary and the traditional, both contradictory and blending, thereby succeeding in the exploration of materials, craft, and form while balancing between "preservation" and "reshaping". Net Kaleidoscope is essentially a metaphorical net. Human civilization, life forms, information and material circulation are all achieved through networks. In terms of creative concept, the work tries to explore the graphic composition and spatial relationship of contemporary handicrafts through reacquainting craftsmanship, materials, light and shadow in space, etc. Thus each piece of graphics is unique, the use of weaving makes this work borderless, and in this sense, infinite. So in terms of iconography, such networks may evolve into a comprehensive work, which can be infinitely intertwined into a “canopy’, resembling a “Kaleidoscope” that symbolizes the world.