Liu Xi

1986 Born in Zibo, Shandong Province

2010 Graduated form the Sculpture Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor’s degree

Currently works and lives in Shanghai and Jingdezhen

EXHIBITIONS

2017

2017 Art Nova 100, Beijing, China

Pass by your world - Art from Beijing, Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway

Transferred Field - Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Yun Art Center, Shanghai, China

2016

China - Ecuador Joint Exhibition of Ceramics and Porcelain, Cultural Center of Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

36th Concurs International de Ceramica , Museu de Ceramica de L’Alcora, Valencia, Spain

CAFA TaoXiChuan Art Museum, Jingdezhen, China

2015

Time, Shanghai Peninsula Art Museum, Shanghai, China

35th Concurs International de Ceramica CICA 2015, L’Alcora Ceramic Museum, Valencia, Spain

When Tradition Meets Design - Discovering the Potential of Jingdezhen Porcelain, China Design Center, London, UK

Liu Xi closely combines craftsmanship and materials, hands, fingers and eyes, playfully seeking to unveil the clay’s vital, undiscovered potential, where formations and surfaces allow for further development. The clay is plastic. It can be shaped how she wants it and retain the shape it has at the point when she choose to stop the process. She uses clay as an instrument for exploring texture, structure and form, color and construction. Her goal is to generate new knowledge, new meaningful visual reflections. Disturbing and ambiguous, immediate and overwhelming, beautiful and repulsive. All of this combined to form a whole of vital individual details – the encounters, proportions and precision striking a perfect balance: like a killer punch to the solar plexus. - Torbjørn Kvasbø (Vice President of the International Academy of Ceramics)