Archimedes' Ship
Li Jianfeng
李剑锋
Production date
2010
Object Detail
Media
oil on canvas
Measurements
250 x 400 cm (diptych)
Notes
Self-taught artist Li Jianfeng describes his painting style as ‘super magic reality’. He creates bizarre, mysterious narratives featuring juxtapositions of figures, animals and objects in strange landscape settings. Influenced by the work of the German Expressionists and Neo-Expressionists, as well as Neo Rauch and the Leipzig School, his paintings evoke a chaotic and cruel world in which all is definitely not well. They appear to be allegories, perhaps even political commentaries, but the artist intends their meaning to be opaque.
Accession number
2011.038