At the time of his Series "Rust Transformation" Liu Ming was editor of the magazine Jiangsu Pictorial Art Monthly (until 1991) .
A few large works from that series were part of the seminal exhibition " China New Art , Post-89 " that traveled in Hong Kong, Australia , New Zealand and several cities of the United States from 1993. These works are reproduced P. 216 and 217 in the reference book "Post- 89"
that was re-printed by Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong .
exert from China's New Art, Post - 1989 :
"Liu Ming's works of handmade paper are representative of the movement in abstract art in the late Eighties toward a consuming concern with the material characteristics of the art medium . This absorption in the physical material is seen as a turning away from the insubstantial, spiritual concerns that characterised met of chinese abstract art at the time. In Liu's art, the artist's sensitivity is subtly articulated by the precious frailty of the paper and the nuances of incompatibility and intrusion created by the wire and other incongruous materials embedded in it ."
A few large works from that series were part of the seminal exhibition " China New Art , Post-89 " that traveled in Hong Kong, Australia , New Zealand and several cities of the United States from 1993. These works are reproduced P. 216 and 217 in the reference book "Post- 89"
that was re-printed by Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong .
exert from China's New Art, Post - 1989 :
"Liu Ming's works of handmade paper are representative of the movement in abstract art in the late Eighties toward a consuming concern with the material characteristics of the art medium . This absorption in the physical material is seen as a turning away from the insubstantial, spiritual concerns that characterised met of chinese abstract art at the time. In Liu's art, the artist's sensitivity is subtly articulated by the precious frailty of the paper and the nuances of incompatibility and intrusion created by the wire and other incongruous materials embedded in it ."