Lot n° 9.1
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15000 - 25000
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"Fidélité" Oil on canvas 130 x 200 cm signed lower right and - Lot 9
"Fidélité" Oil on canvas 130 x 200 cm signed lower right and on the back: titled, dated 1994 and signed.
This is a painter with a very particular itinerary. For him, creation is a predominant preoccupation.
Born into a family of decorators, he began working at the age of 14, while painting in secret in the manner of an artist from the former Soviet Union.
Following in his parents' footsteps, he worked in Saint-Ouen, with dealers and private individuals who entrusted him with the interior architecture of their apartments. He developed a real passion for art and became a recognized art lover. His collaboration with dealers and interior designers is certainly a testament to his talent.
In 1989, at Galerie Garig BASMADJIAN, he met Mikhail BRUSSILOVSKY. It was both an aesthetic and emotional shock to see his work, and he acquired two paintings and a sculpture of his partner Valentina BRUSILOSKAYA. This event became a kind of catalyst for Liu PARK. This relationship encouraged him in his desire to paint.
Another turning point in his thinking came in 1990, when he began timidly experimenting with painting in his late teens.
In 1992, he befriended the visual artist Henri ENU, one of the founders of the counter-culture, internationally renowned for his surmodernism. This movement was born in the 1980s, and since 1990 has included artists such as Florence ROQUEPLOT, Lily TOURNET, Jean-François BOURY, Charles DREYFUS and Marc QUESTIN, with whom he exhibits regularly. "Petit résistant" is the pseudonym given to him by Henri ENU, with whom he not only exchanges ideas, but also learns more about the practice.
In 1993, he exhibited at a number of Parisian art fairs. His paintings and sculptures are much appreciated. Painting became an increasingly important part of his life, and his works now stand alongside those of the great masters.
In the same year, he began making wrought-iron furniture and a number of brutalist sculptures - work that was much appreciated by decorators. Liu-park receives many commissions from this worker, each model unique.
<< Une peinture non figurative de pure invention pour exprimer son univers intérieur, mais sans se servir des objets du monde réel>>
"If I choose the non-figurative world, it's because I believe it's larger than the other. I think there's more to discover of the unknown. I don't think the opposite is true.
The decision to break away from the visible world also marks the end of his apprenticeship and plunges Liu Park into the heart of current trends, committing his work to modernity. Liu Park is interested in the process of degeneration of art as an indispensable moment in culture.
Liu Park exhibited several times with his close friends Didier Jouvin, Henry Enu, Gilles Naja and Kaplan.
In the same year, he met Jean Marie Cusinberche and Georges Mathieu.
He rubbed shoulders with the artists Kijno, de Boissy, Bailly Coulange, Gérard Sendrey, and Christian Grisoni, with whom he shared similarities.
In 1996, while exhibiting at the Parc Floral de Vincennes, a fire destroyed his warehouse. He lost all his canvases (his own and those of the great masters he had acquired). Working tirelessly for customers and decorators to get back on his feet, and with unusual physical strength, he maintained a very steady pace of life. During the day, he continued to attend trade shows, and at night, he painted until two or three in the morning. Similar in this respect to Marcel BURTIN, friend of Édouard PIGNON and Pablo PICASSO, who earns a living by day and picks up his pencil or brush in the evening, sleeping for just a few hours.
It wasn't until 2000 that his situation changed. He took over the salons in Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Belgium and Luxembourg.
In 2003, he took stock of his life as an artist - he was looking for a form of truth in his work. He began to use soft, silky colors - or sometimes rather violent ones.
With his collector friends, he exchanges paintings by great masters such as Jean-Louis FORAIN, Maurice UTRILLO and MODIGLIANI. Some of these works found their way into private collections.
In the same year, he joins the international Surmodernist group.
In 2007, he became a friend of painter Thierry CHAUVEL and the artist's mother, who left him the interior of her apartment on her death.
In 2008, he bought an old farmhouse in Gironde, France, which he renovated to devote to his own work.
He built a large studio in the farmhouse, where he is regularly visited by his family and friends.
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