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Li Yuan-chia, artist sketchbook with clippings
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LI YUAN-CHIA (1929 - 1994)
Li Yuan-chia is an artist without borders. Born in Guangxi province in mainland China, he arrived in Taiwan in 1949 as a war refugee and orphan, only to then continue his journey by sea to Italy in 1962. Settling in Bologna, Li was able to refine his artistic style, developing his distinctive idea of the ‘Cosmic Point’ within a series of increasingly abstract works. He became involved with the work of Il Punto, a Milan-based group merging Eastern and Western artists that included Italian painter Antonio Calderara, and exhibited alongside artists such as Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni. This third country of residence, however, would not keep hold of such a nomadic traveller: Li then found his way to Britain, having been invited to exhibit in London’s - Signals Gallery, where he felt inspired by the youthful and experimental atmosphere of the city in the 1960s. In 1968 he moved to Cumbria, eventually settling in the village of Banks on the route of Hadrian’s Wall, where he bought a derelict farmhouse from his friend, the British painter Winifred Nicholson. Here he opened the LYC Museum and Art Gallery, which ran for over a decade and exhibited artists including Andy Goldsworthy, David Nash, Kate Nicholson and Bill Woodrow.
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Photography: Courtesy of Sotheby's London.
Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery in London aims to present the work of artists who may be undervalued by the market, but are art historically important and influential.