Gilles Dyan, founder of Opera Gallery Group, is delighted to announce the exclusive representation of Li Tianbing, whose first exhibition will take place at Opera Gallery Paris on May 19th.
Born in 1974 in the southern Province of Guilin, in China, Li Tianbing studied at the Institute of International Relations in Beijing before relinquishing a diplomatic career that was already fully mapped out, as he wished to fully devote himself to his passion for art. At the age of 22, he therefore attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, from which he graduated six years later with distinction. Today, he lives and works between Paris and Los Angeles.
Li Tianbing’s body of work is characterized by the dual influence of the Far-East and the West: the first being a legacy of Chinese painting imbued with Taoism, the second coming from the teachings of art professors such as Vladimir Veličković, Christian Boltanski and Giuseppe Penone while he studied at the Fine Arts School in Paris. His work was marked by a pivotal moment in 2006, when he compiled a family album comprising portraits of him as a child, for the purpose of denouncing the one-child policy, thus depicting an imaginary family through replications of himself. He henceforth developed a new visual language in which portraits abound, creating through his art a dialog between reality, imagination and fantasy.
Li Tianbing, Memory #5, 2010 Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
When working on his compositions, Li Tianbing essentially uses oil paint; however, another of his main means of expression remains drawing with Indian ink. He also enjoys working with watercolours, alternating between Chinese and European paintbrushes.
Today, Li Tianbing’s works of art are found both in public and private collections: The Hong Kong Arts Centre, the M+ Museum and the Uli Sigg Collection in Hong Kong; the China National Museum of Fine Arts and the Ullens Collection in Beijing; the Fondation Carmignac in Porquerolles, France; the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Denver Art Museum, and the Asia Society in New York, USA; the Red Mansion Foundation in London, UK.
Li Tianbing’s works of art will be exhibited in Opera Gallery’s fourteen presentation spaces throughout the world and thus offer an international public the opportunity to discover or rediscover his creations.
Li Tianbing, Meditation Beforethe Red Tunnel, 2021 Oil on canvas, 198 x 244 cm
Opera Gallery is a modern and contemporary art gallery founded in 1994 by Gilles Dyan. Opera Gallery has 14 spaces worldwide: New York, Miami, Bal Harbour, Aspen, London, Paris, Monaco, Geneva, Dubai, Beirut, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Seoul.
Opera Gallery presents a selection of artworks by modern, post-war and contemporary artists such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet, Alexander Calder, Pierre Soulages, Manolo Valdés and Georg Baselitz as well as solo, group or thematic exhibitions.
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