Chen Li's Artistic Research and Site Specific Art Projects

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Solo exhibition at Triennale Bovisa, Milan, 2009

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2009

Site specific works

Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy

THE ARTISTIC RESEARCH BY CHEN LI: MUSEUMS, FOUNDATIONS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VENUE, LIBRARIES,
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Chen Li's art projects are always site-specific: designed for a museum or a contemporary art place, a hospital, a previous church.

Exhibition places (selection):

Triennale Bovisa museum, Milano, 2009 The body without the body: series of works where the body is represented by its absence. "Superb is the Night": nightgown installation with written words in rilief Women– installation of 20 sculpture in plaster, where “Planning” has a feminine point of view in form and values Self-portraits: self-portraits of Chen Li's face; our face communicates in the same way of calligraphic words: through the human body

Archivio storico Olivetti, Ivrea, 2008; "Bruno Munari, Italo Calvino, Raymond Queneau, three masters, three artists, three genius", their life followed the Adriano Olivetti's philosophy for both human and technological development.

Mausoleo de la Bela Rosin, Turin, Italy 2015

Ospedale Sant'Anna, Turin, Italy 2018

San Pietro in Vincoli, Turin, Italy 2018 - Festival delle migrazioni

Zooart, Cuneo 2011
Cortile del Maglio, "The art box", 2008-2009

Singolare Plurale, Palazzo Barolo, "Chiaroscuro", Torino 2010

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Site Specific Roots Fondazione Prada 2017 Fondazione Prada 2018 Early Works Happiness Portraits Eat drink man woman sculptures and installations Get out of my mind Profile Made in Italy Poesie Tang

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Site Specific Roots Fondazione Prada 2017 Fondazione Prada 2018 Early Works Happiness Portraits Eat drink man woman sculptures and installations Get out of my mind Profile Made in Italy Poesie Tang

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Site Specific Roots Fondazione Prada 2017 Fondazione Prada 2018 Early Works Happiness Portraits Eat drink man woman sculptures and installations Get out of my mind Profile Made in Italy Poesie Tang

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Site Specific Roots Fondazione Prada 2017 Fondazione Prada 2018 Early Works Happiness Portraits Eat drink man woman sculptures and installations Get out of my mind Profile Made in Italy Poesie Tang

The artistic research of Chen Li begins with learning formal calligraphy for about twenty years from 1994 to 2005, where calligraphy for Chen Li means study of historical styles and knowledge of alphabets around the world, especially of Chinese writing. Her main interest becomes the sign, as a microcosm, the starting point for any artistic work. The sign itself becomes the trademark of Chen Li and a recurrent element of her research. After about 10 years of study and work, Chen Li reaches her personal style: formal beauty that becomes one with the signifier, with particular regard to a contemporary vision. The "Happiness" series was born. The sign becomes the absolute protagonist and plays with all the available means, traditional and technological, to tell the current era without any critical intent, only objective. Thanks to travels in various parts of the world and working togehter with other artists and personalities from multiple fields of work, fashion, industry, advertising, Chen Li is always looking for new ways in folds of "mainstream" territories.

Mausoleo della Bela Rosin

2015, Torino, Italy "Roots", exhibition. Guylen Béland Tessier, Chen Li, Moona Metsoila. Curator: Chen Li

Mausoleo della Bela Rosin, Torino, Italy

Roots - Chen Li 2008

Movicentro

2012, Acquiterme, Italy "A passage to China",exhibition. Chen Li, Vittorio Tonon, Clarice Zdanski, curator: Vittorio Tonon

2012, Acquiterme, Italy "A passage to China", Chen Li (canvases), Vittorio Tonon (the dragon installation), Clarice Zdanski (chinese screens), curator: Vittorio Tonon

2012, Acquiterme, Italy "A passage to China", Chen Li, canvases and installation, curator: Vittorio Tonon

Archivio storico Olivetti

2008-2009
La Fiera della Parola, Ivrea, Italy
Curator: Tino Aime

Women, Installation by Chen Li 2009

Lessons, Installation by Chen Li 2008

Invitation 2008

Women, Installation by Chen Li 2009

Palazzo Falletti di Barolo

2017, "Chiaroscuro" at PARI - Polo delle Arti Relazionali e Irregolari: Palazzo Barolo, Torino, Italy
The exhibition is the result of a join educational and art project lasted two years.
Installation by laboratorio Scritture (Writing Workshop) with Chen Li — at Palazzo Falletti di Barolo.

Ceramic installation (ceramic workshop) with Maria Teresa Frizzarin — at Palazzo Falletti di Barolo.

Curators: Emanuela Romano e Valentina Bonomonte, Galleria Opere Scelte
Idea and project coordination: Tea Taramino.

One of the most beautiful Palace in Torino has a beautiful basement.