ARTIST MONOGRAPHS

Liu Xiaodong

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


       

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Liu Xiaodong: Shaanbei

LISSON GALLERY
Text by Hou Hanru, Xiaoyu Weng, Barry Schwabsky.

Whether life-sized or small-scale, Xiaodong’s paintings document the people of the Shaanbei region with both realism and pathos

Pbk, 7.75 x 11.75 in. / 288 pgs / 200 color. | 5/7/2024 | In stock
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Liu Xiaodong: Spring in New York

LISSON GALLERY
Text by Alexandra Munroe.

A contemporary history painter addresses the pandemic

Pbk, 11 x 12 in. / 112 pgs / 54 color / 3 bw. | 4/12/2022 | In stock
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Liu Xiaodong: Borders

MOUSSE PUBLISHING
Text by Peter Doroshenko.

“As much a portrait of the transformed artist as it is a collective rendering of those who call the border home.” –Brooklyn Rail

Clth, 6.75 x 8.75 in. / 112 pgs / 54 color. | 4/5/2022 | In stock
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Liu Xiaodong: Weight of Insomnia

LISSON GALLERY
Introduction by Zhang Ga. Text by James Bridle, Liu Xiaodong. Interview by Karen Archey.

Quantifying the emotional burden of everyday life through the use of surveillance cameras and a robotic painting machine

Hbk, 9.5 x 12.75 in. / 152 pgs / 62 color / 34 bw. | 10/8/2019 | In stock
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Liu Xiaodong: The Process of Painting

MODERNE KUNST NüRNBERG
Preface by Peter Pakesch.Text by Zandie Brockett, Günther Holler-Schuster, Liu Xiaodong. Interview by Heinz-Norbert Jocks.

Pbk, 9 x 11.25 in. / 176 pgs / 200 color. | 4/30/2013 | Not available
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Liu Xiaodong: Yan' Guan Town

MARY BOONE GALLERY
Text by Jeff Kelley.

Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 173 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 2/28/2011 | Not available
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Liu Xiaodong: ShaanbeiLiu Xiaodong: Shaanbei

Published by Lisson Gallery.
Text by Hou Hanru, Xiaoyu Weng, Barry Schwabsky.

Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong’s (born 1963) most personally significant project to date, Shaanbei is his series on the eponymous Chinese province and birthplace of the People’s Republic of China, which Xiaodong frequented as an art student and which he revisited to paint in 2018.



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Catalog: SPRING 2024 p. 136   

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Liu Xiaodong: BordersLiu Xiaodong: Borders

Published by Mousse Publishing.
Text by Peter Doroshenko.

For eight weeks, Chinese painter Liu Xiaodong (born 1962) embedded himself within Mexico–US border communities such as Ciudad Juárez, El Paso, Eagle Pass, Piedras Negras, Laredo and Nuevo Laredo, to capture the lives and trials of the people living there. A leading figure of Chinese Neo-Realism, Liu, in loose brushstrokes, paints everything from border agents on both sides carrying out their duties to Mexican families barbecuing on the banks of the Rio Grande. Also included in this clothbound volume are Liu’s reference photographs of these border communities; studies based on those photographs showing how he builds his compositions; and pages of his notes taken throughout his lengthy journey. Peter Doroshenko, director of the Dallas Contemporary, writes in an essay for the book: “every painting captures a decisive moment, locking individual narratives down forever, reflecting numerous cultural references that echo throughout his practice.”



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Catalog: SPRING 2022 p. 121   

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Liu Xiaodong: Spring in New YorkLiu Xiaodong: Spring in New York

Published by Lisson Gallery.
Text by Alexandra Munroe.

Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong (born 1963) has been addressing radical shifts in society such as population displacement and environmental crisis for over three decades. This publication features a series of watercolor paintings that document the changing landscape of New York City during the height of the pandemic.



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Catalog: FALL 2022 p. 177   

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Liu Xiaodong: Weight of InsomniaLiu Xiaodong: Weight of Insomnia

Published by Lisson Gallery.
Introduction by Zhang Ga. Text by James Bridle, Liu Xiaodong. Interview by Karen Archey.

Since 2015, Chinese painter Liu Xiaodong (born 1963) has been developing a technologically radical project to create landscape paintings using robotic arms and surveillance cameras. Collectively entitled Weight of Insomnia, this series of paintings is an attempt to quantify the emotional burden carried by people moving through the seemingly ceaseless surroundings of the 24-hour city. Taking live feeds, streaming data and imagery from specific locations, Liu’s painting machine processes these real-time images of the ever-changing flow of humanity into a complex network of abstract marks on canvas, resulting in a machine-manufactured painting.

This book is the first to publish the full extent of this project through its iterations in China, Germany, the UK and Australia. The volume also includes an interview with the artist as well as Liu’s diaries written during the project’s gestation, installation shots and working documents.



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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.75 in. / 152 pgs / 62 color / 34 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 161   

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Liu Xiaodong: The Process of PaintingLiu Xiaodong: The Process of Painting

Published by Moderne Kunst Nürnberg.
Preface by Peter Pakesch.Text by Zandie Brockett, Günther Holler-Schuster, Liu Xiaodong. Interview by Heinz-Norbert Jocks.

This catalogue documents the latest project of Chinese painter Liu Xiaodong (born 1963), in which the artist lived and worked for a month in Eisenerz, Austria. The Process of Painting explores the striking resemblance between the industrial and cultural conditions of Eisenerz and China.

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Moderne Kunst Nürnberg

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Paperback, 9 x 11.25 in. / 176 pgs / 200 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2013 p. 191   

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Liu Xiaodong: Yan' Guan TownLiu Xiaodong: Yan' Guan Town

Published by Mary Boone Gallery.
Text by Jeff Kelley.

In the summer of 2009, Liu Xiaodong--widely considered the leading "New Generation" figurative painter in China--traveled to Yan' Guan County in Gansu Province, China, where he sought to depict the peaceful coexistence of Muslims and Christians, focusing on two families. This monograph presents his portraits of the families alongside journal excerpts and photographs.

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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 173 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: SPRING 2011 p. 141   

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Liu Xiaodong: Painting From LifeLiu Xiaodong: Painting From Life

Published by Blue Kingfisher.
Text by Ai Weiwei, Pi Li.

This volume is the most comprehensive look at Beijing-based painter Liu Xiaodong, who was born in 1963, to date. Articles, interviews and essays are accompanied by high quality, fold-out reproductions of his most significant pieces in this beautifully-designed volume. As the title suggests, Liu paints from life--drawing from the rich history of the practice in Chinese art. Eschewing any sense of romanticism about his subjects, Liu approaches his fusion of landscape painting and portraiture pragmatically. "Eighteen Soldiers Between Mainland and Taiwan" (2004), for example, is a horizontal painting segmented into eight sections, each of which contains a full-body portrait of a soldier staring impassively at the viewer or into the distance; each stands against a different background: a horizon of sea and sky, tanks and bunkers, trees and barbed wire. Included are texts by artist Ai Weiwei and curator Pi Li.

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Slipcased, 14.5 x 10.25 in. / 705 pgs / 200 color / 100 bw..

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Catalog: SPRING 2008 p. 155   

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Liu Xiaodong: The Richness of LifeLiu Xiaodong: The Richness of Life

The Personal Photographs of Contemporary Chinese Artist Lu Xiadong.

Published by Blue Kingfisher.
Edited and with interviews by Britta Erickson, Ai Weiwei. Introduction by Charles Merewether.

In this collection of photographs, Liu Xiadong, one of China's most celebrated artists, reveals to us the inspiration behind many of his most iconic paintings. An album consisting of personal photographs taken between the years 1984 and 2006, these are the images that have stayed with Liu, inspiring and informing his art throughout the past two decades. Deeply personal and politically engaged, The Richness of Life reveals for the first time the great extent to which Liu's paintings borrow from the discipline of photography, making his art the final product of a complex project involving interviews, photos, sketches and analyses, with little to do with easel painting. Essays from leading scholars illuminate the actively rebuilt nature of Liu's work, while in-depth interviews provide Liu's own perspective on the process and passions involved in his painting.

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Paperback, 9.75 x 10.25 in. / 590 pgs./ 638 color/ 44 bw.

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