LIU YE | THE LAST TEMPTER

Sperone Westwater, New York

Private Collection

Da, Bai Li, "Liu Ye: The Seductive Superman." Hi Art, 2006, p. 48, illustrated in colour

Hatje Cantz, Liu Ye Catalogue Raisonné 1991-2015, Germany 2015, p. 329, illustrated in colour

“I experience his paintings as sensitive pictorial messages relayed between two worlds that are often viewed as contradictory: Western cultures versus Asian cultures. Even back then, Liu Ye’s paintings struck me as manifesting a dialectical constellation, for his work is not only interwoven in many ways with China’s manifold cultural developments; it also bears witness to a profound knowledge of the history of European culture and painting.”

Udo Kittelmann, in Storytelling, exhibition catalogue by Fondazione Prada, 30 January - 28 September 2020

“Percepisco l’opera di Liu Ye come un messaggio pittorico sensibile che passa tra due mondi spesso considerati contraddittori: cultura occidentale e tradizione orientale. La sua pittura ha subito suscitato in me un grande interesse perché crea una relazione non solo con i complessi sviluppi della cultura in Cina, ma si fa testimone di una profonda conoscenza della storia culturale e pittorica europea”.