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MA Liuming, <Fen·Ma Liuming Walks the Greatwall>, C-p rint, 120x240cm, 1998 © artist
MA Liuming, <Dialogue with Gilbert and George>, C-p rint, 40.6x60.9cm, 1993 © artist
MA Liuming, <Dialogue with Gilbert and George>, C-p rint, 60.9x40.6cm, 1993 © artist
MA Liuming, <Fen·Ma Liuming Walks the Greatwall>, Single channel video, 21' 28",1998 © artist
[China]MA Liuming Fen·Ma Liuming Walks the Greatwall
Dialogue with Gilbert and George Dialogue with Gilbert and George Fen·Ma Liuming Walks the Greatwall
In the early 1990s in Beijing East Village, Ma Liuming created a persona “Fen • Ma Liuming” with female features in a male body, proposing a disconnecting and separation between genders. His identity and created roles were attributes of artist’s appearance and inner desires, by which to convey the absurdity, helplessness and bitterness of life. In 1993, the British duo Gilbert and George visited Beijing East Village during their exhibition in Beijing, Ma welcomed the duo with a performance – The Wall by Pink Floyd was played in the background, he stripped off his clothes, scanned his surrounding and noticed a crack on the ceiling. Suddenly, blood oozed out from it, poured over his body… Once young artists living in the Beijing East Village dispersed from the area, as one of the few artists who continued to work for performance art, Ma began to emerge in international exhibitions in 1996, and his liberal and lyrical expressions caught the world’s attention. The made-up Ma Liuming became “Fen•Ma Liuming” in Fen•Ma Liuming Walks the Greatwall, nude on the barren and monumental Wall. After 2003, he ceased all performances, and created his own method of painting, namely squeezing to extend the personas and stories on canvas. |
