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China artist goes local in London

Updated: 2013-09-30 13:27
( Agencies)

China artist goes local in London

Justin Aubrey, Margaret Finnegan and their dog Mati pose in front of Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong's painting of them, titled "Green Pub" at the Lisson Gallery in London September 26, 2013. "Green Pub" is part of Xiaodong's new body of work stemming from his invitation to work in Britain from the Lisson Gallery.[Photo/Agencies]

The soft-spoken, bespectacled 50-year-old artist has spent the last three decades capturing the lives of ordinary people in his paintings, painted-over photographs, diaries and films from China to Europe and the Middle East.

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His "Half Street" exhibition depicts the lives of people Liu befriended over six weeks in two pubs and an Egyptian café, just steps from the Lisson gallery where the large oil-on-canvas paintings are displayed alongside acrylic photo-paintings.

"It's such an exciting thing to share with other people," said Liu, a leading figure among Chinese Neo-Realist painters and professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA).

Liu likes to spend time getting to know his subjects. The Beijing-based artist writes and draws in a journal and then takes photographs before building a temporary studio in situ, to paint 'en plein air' or 'xiesheng' in Chinese.

It's a technique he has used previously living and painting among local people. Critics have compared his work to that of British painter Lucian Freud.

"The background is important," he said in an interview this week.

In London he was invited into the homes of the staff at The Perseverance pub, had dinner with them, smoked with them and walked their dogs.

"I very much enjoyed painting here because at first we didn't know each other," Liu said. "After painting we are close, we know each other and feel very good."

"Green Pub" depicts The Perseverance with its staff and trusty dog Mati, painted from life over four consecutive days during opening hours.

"All our customers were all in the pub as it was taking place, so it created a really good vibe," said the pub's 46-year-old landlady, Margaret Finnegan, originally from New Jersey in the United States.

Photographs with touches of paint from Liu add small details such as rain drops, but also figures and in one case a portrait of Finnegan's late father painted into a photograph alongside her husband working in the kitchen.

When she saw it, Liu said: "She was almost crying ... I was crying too."

French chef Sebastien Lambot, his Polish wife Marta, their 17-month-old son and a reveler dressed as a cowboy riding a horse are the subjects in "White Pub", an oil-on-canvas painting Liu created after befriending the couple and asking permission to paint them in The Chapel pub where Sebastien works.

"When we Googled his name we found out he was a world-famous artist," Sebastien said. "We've become immortal in a way."

The final location, shown in the painting "Egyptian Restaurant", is an upstairs meeting room of an eatery on the Edgware Road in London, itself a former Art Deco cinema.

It is depicted empty, with the television off and the chairs either recently vacated or waiting for new occupants.

The exhibition will run until November 2.

 
 
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