Li Yiwen, Three Kinds of Reality, 2023, Acrylic on Canvas, 90 x 150 cm
Li Yiwen, born in 1982 in Luoyang, Henan Province, graduated from the Mural Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree in 2006 and from the Mural Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree in 2011.He has won the 2006 Light of the Academy "Art Innovation" Award and Wang Jialian Oil Painting Scholarship.
Li Yiwen uses painting as his main medium. His paintings always travel through time, space, and reflect the artist’s thoughts on the relationship between them. Experiences from the past and the present permeate each other, and its continuous accumulation becomes the source of inspiration and the origin of Li’s expression. Li often adopts Postmodern methodology - he blends illogical, fictional, ectopic, and intuitive elements into the artwork by filtering, selecting, and elevating the image, subverting the traditional narrative of painting practices while generating new meanings.