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Li Xin, La chair de l’eau
Philippe Piguet
La chair de l’eauShao GuangHua« Tout naît de l’eau, et l’eau est la matière essentielle de mon œuvre. » Ainsi Li Xin décrit-il son travail. Dans ces œuvres aux teintes grises, sourdes, tout est silence et mystère : l’eau en est le fil secret qui relie l’ensemble. Elle détient le pouvoir de refléter, d’inverser ...
Li Xin, the ebb and flow of paint New
Philippe Piguet
« The subject is you, your impressions, your emotions towards nature. You have to look within yourself not around you. » These words were written by Delacroix in his Journal. Words that particularly resonate when one gazes at Li Xin’s work. They invite us to take stock of the infinite space that the artist wishes to ...
The Danaid Salon at the Rodin Museum
The Danaid Salon at the Rodin Museum
Henry-Claude Cousseau
It’s indeed more than appropriate to have Li Xin, the Chinese “Painter of Water”, assigned to decorate the salon on the southern side of the Hôtel Biron’s ground floor. The oval space takes its name from the presence of Danaid (1885), a piece of sculpture by Auguste Rodin ...
If the Ether will never die——Li Xin’s “éther durée space”
By LIN Yunke
In 1887, Albert A. Michelson, who later became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in the sciences, joined Edward W. Morley to design one of the most exquisite experiments in the history of physics. They were trying to save a soon-to-extinct concept of medium: Ether (also known as “luminiferous aether”), an ...
Musee Rodin Li Xin’s paintings being mounted
2021-01-21
Oooooooondes, eight pieces of Li Xin’s most recent series, were sent to Musee Rodin in Paris as part of its permanent exhibits. They will soon be open to the public. In this museum are also collected and displayed Rodin’s momentous works, like The Gates of Hell, The Kiss, The thinker, as well as those by such ...
EXPO MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF IMMEGRATION, PARIS 2025
BEYOND WANDERING
Li Xin at the Golden Gate Palace
I come from a Hakka family. For reasons tied to history, my ancestors traversed much of China, settling in the south before migrating northward again. As I now divide my time between China and France, I often reflect on the meaning of such journeys. From a contemporary perspective, ...
EXPO GALLERY VALENTIN PARIS, 2024
LI XIN, A WATER ARTIST
Henri-François Debailleux
“I'm not a painter.” Li Xin immediately announced. Faced with his works and this disconcerting affirmation, we can only wonder what he is. And what he does. “I make images. Painting is rather decorative. What interests me is to dialogue with the universe in the manner of the ancient Chinese ...
EXPO La Chapelle DE L’HOTEL-DIEU A LYON 2022
In an age of pandemic, defined by isolation and unspoken words, our yearning to speak to the divine has never felt more urgent.
As wars rage, conflicts persist, and information explodes, division has become the norm and silence a luxury. Does the resonance of human connections seem to be a distant dream?
Standing as a pinnacle of ...