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Liu Chunhai at work
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Liu Chunlai is a young artist who caught our attention for wonderful large-format landscapes. Design and colors are reduced to a minimum. Nevertheless, the result is breath-taking. Liu Chunlai demonstrates an old principle of Chinese art: Less is more.

From Heilongjiang Province

The artist was born in 1966 in Heilongjiang, China's most Northern province. He graduated from the Fine Art Department of Harbin (Ha Er Bing) Teacher Training School. Presently the artist lives in Beijing and works as a professional painter and printmaker. He is married to Zhao Tianqi, a successful printmaker like himself.

Liu Chunhai's landscapes are a product of his Northern homeland, where the average temperatures in January are from -31 to -15 Celsius. He shows vast landscapes, often in harsh winter, covered by heavy snow. And amidst his landscapes are either human beings or animals. They are always depicted small in size compared to the huge space occupied by the landscape. And they look very lonely and fragile.

One can virtually feel the cold with Liu's winter landscapes. And a strange mood lies over the whole scene - like for woodblock prints by the great Japanese master Hasui Kawase. Liu Chunhai achieves the effect with a combination of reduced designs, the selection of the right colors and by placing these tiny, lonely beings amidst the landscape - Hasui did the same.

Solo Exhibitions

• 1999 - 11th studio of Beijing exhibition
• 2000 - Workshop exhibition in Beijing
• 2000 - Art Exhibition "Salute the Symbols" at Yun Feng Gallery, Beijing

Group Exhibitions

• 1989 - Artwork exposition of Young Artists from Heilongjiang, in Harbin (Ha Er Bing)
• 1990 - China-Japan Painting Exposition in Osaka and Hiroshima/Japan
• 1990 - Second National Physical Culture Artwork Exposition, Beijing
• 1990 - 4th Print Exposition of Heilongjiang province, in Harbin (Ha Er Bing)
• 1992 - 11th National Print Exposition, Beijing
• 1993 - 5th Print Exposition of Heilongjiang province, in Harbin (Ha Er Bing)
• 1994 - Exposition of Teachers' artworks of Heilongjiang province, in Harbin (Ha Er Bing)
• 1995 - China-Japan Painting Exposition in Yokohama/Japan
• 1997 - Art Exposition for the celebration of Hong Kong's return to mainland China, in Harbin (Ha Er Bing)
• 2001 - Exposition of 9 artists, International Art Museums of Beijing

Awards

• 1990 - Copper prize of the second National Physical Culture Artwork Exposition, Beijing
• 1993 - Golden prize of the 5th Print Exposition of Heilongjiang province, in Harbin (Ha Er Bing)
• 1995 - Golden prize of the China-Japan Painting Exposition in Yokohama/Japan

Collections

Far Autumn, 1988
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The art works of Liu Chunhai are in the possession of Hong Kong Goldlion Co., Ltd. and the International Movie Centres of Hai Nan, China. Private collectors from the U.S.A., Japan, the Czech Republic, France and Hong Kong appreciate the artists works.

Media and editions

Autumn Charms, 1989
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Liu Chunlai works in traditional Chinese woodblock technique and in silkscreen. The editions that we encountered so far, were small from 2 to 20 copies. All prints were signed, dated and numbered by the artist.

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