Liu Ruowang

LIU RUOWANG (China, 1977).
"Original Sin (small)".
Ceramic.
Signed and dated on the base.
Measurements: 36 x 13,5 x 12 cm.
Liu Ruowang is a young artist who grew up after China's reform. He moved to the provincial capital from a small, poor mountain village in western China to begin his education, and later to China's capital. In 1996 he was admitted to the Fashion Design course at Xi'an Polytechnic University; later, in 1998, he dropped out of school to become a painter. He came to Beijing in 1999, where he attended the postgraduate course as a teaching assistant at the Central Academy of Fine Arts from 2002 to 2005. In 2005, his work The East is Red participated in the Light of the Academy exhibition of excellent artworks, organized by CAFA, and was awarded.

Liu Ruowang's work consists of sculptural series, such as Original Sin, Wolves Coming, Heaven Soldier, The People, Melody, Dodo, and pictorial series, including Living Things. Since 2005, his works have begun to be known and appreciated in all Chinese art associations and abroad. They have been exhibited in numerous cities around the world, including Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Seoul, Queenstown, Venice, Turin and Büdelsdorf (Germany), where he won the NordArt award in 2016. In the same year he was awarded the Naples International Cultural Classic Award. In 2018 he opened the DoDo Art Museum, located in the northeast of Beijing, whose project he commissioned to the studio: Unarchitecte, led by Zhang Hetian. His installation "Wolves coming'' is exhibited in Naples in Piazza del Municipio from November 2019 to June 2020, then lands in Florence in Piazza SS. Annunziata and Piazza Pitti.