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Li Wei | defying gravity through art
Chinese artist LI WEI makes the impossible seem...possible. Li's art, a mixture of performance art and photography, captures him dangling or stuck, as it were, in some shocking illusions -- whether he's crashing into a skyscraper windows or even the earth itself, like a magician on crack defying gravity.
The 37-year-old Beijing-based artist has travelled around the world for his art (one photograph retails up to $8,000) -- made possible with metal wires, mirrors, scaffolding, and acrobatics.
Although Li Wei's philosophy is to "show the independence of the spiritual values of Chinese artists and the internal peace of a culture," his photographic series called "Li Wei falls to..." has been recognized, he says, as "the perfect metaphor for the Chinese conquest of the world." Dun, dun, dun...
He says: "My artistic language is universal and deals with themes about contemporary politics and society using symbols understood by everyone in every part of the world....I am fascinated by the unstable and dangerous sides of art and I hope my works reflect these aspects."
Li Wei Falls to the Earth
Freedegree over 25th story
29 levels of freedom
Hand
Love meets 15m
Love at the high place 1
On the Earth surface
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