Anti Liu
Interpretive Realms
July 26 - August 16, 2011
Reception:
Thursday July 28, 2011 6-8 PM
Press Release
Born in Taiwan and currently living in New York, Anti Liu creates compelling sculptures that explore the intersections between human relationships, politics, and history, and how these connections come to define our modern world. Working in a variety of media, Liu effectively bridges the cultural gaps between the militaristic Taiwan of his childhood and the America he has come to know and embrace. Through the tensions that reverberate throughout his sculptures, meanings unfold, revealing subtexts that challenge the very fabric of our society and dare us as viewers to reconsider all we have come to know and experience.
As Liu explains, “I feel that my work not only comments on what we need to change in our society, but… I work consciously to create a piece that the viewer perceives in states of awareness. Within each stage, a stronger meaning is revealed and the viewer is subtly shown my intentions.” In the end, Liu’s art highlights and calls into question the acts of violence, satires, intrigues, and ironies we confront every day.
Artist Statement
Human relationships hover between fascination and destruction. How do we fit in our roots and our culture? We have aims, we have dreams but we do not have solutions. By interweaving humor with art to express the madness, fragility, aimlessness and immobility of current circumstances I create my work. It is not political, it is not emotional. It balances between what we know and what we think we know about the world. My work demands reaction. I create work that both comments and plays with the notions of current affairs and political action. I subtly comment on these topics while also poking fun at them. We recognize the severity of the issues at hand yet view them as if they are a show we are watching or a game we are playing. My goal is to point this out to the viewer.
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