Editor | Christoph NOE

Text(s) | Zhu ZHU, Paul MOORHOUSE & Philip TINARI

Hardcover | 400 pages

Publisher | Hatje Cantz, 2015

Language(s) | English & Chinese

ISBN-13 | 978-3-7757-3922-1

Product Dimensions | 27.40 x 30.50 cm

Photography | Creatives duMonde

Exacting, precise and arresting! As inimitable as they are singular, the paintings of Liu Ye leave an indelible impression. One could never mistake them for the work of another artist. A self-professed avid and prolific reader, a global art and culture connoisseur, Liu Ye demands a certain type of intellectual parsing and critical analysis from viewers. His paintings are at once playful and serious, vibrant and bleak, historical homage and mischievous fiction.

Liu Ye’s melding of the figurative, representational and abstract, combined with a refusal to separate cross-border influences or define his style as any kind of “ism”, speaks directly to the INTERNATIONAL BOY ethos and community.

A visually stunning and meticulously informative compilation, Liu Ye’s catalogue raisonné is the first to be published on a Chinese contemporary artist.

TMG