Artist Li Chen receives American Friends of Museums in Israel’s Outstanding Achievements in the Sculptural Arts Award

Asia Art Center would like to congratulate our represented artist Li Chen on receiving the Outstanding Achievements in the Sculptural Arts Award from American Friends of Museums in Israel. Li Chen is the first artist from Asia to be honoured in the category of sculptures. Past honoured sculptors include Stephan Balkenhol (Germany), Tony Cragg (UK), Jeff Koons (US), Jaume Plensa (Spain) and Bernar Venet (France), as well as artists Tracey Emin (UK), John Baldessari (US) and Ewa Juszkiewicz (Poland).

 
American Friends of Museums in Israel recognises, promotes, and honours its outstanding partner museums in Israel by providing exhibition, programme and project as well as honouring outstanding artists of our time whose body of work has gained the admiration and respect of the global art community. The institution offers heightened visibility for its partner museums at special events in New York, and in promotional materials.
 
American Friends of Museums in Israel’s partner museums are the Design Museum Holon; Haifa Museums that include the Haifa City Museum, Haifa Museum of Art, Hermann Struck Museum, Mané-Katz Museum, the National Maritime Museum and the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art; and the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum. Which are all highly regarded establishments that present well-rounded programmes with the support from American Friends of Museums in Israel.
 
Born in Taiwan in 1963, Li Chen accomplished a style which has fully liberated itself from the confines of tradition by incorporating feelings of self-mindfulness and interpretations of Chinese classics from the Buddhist and Taoist traditions, blended with contemporary thought, evincing a remarkably refreshing and natural effect of appearing both heavy and light.
 
The underlying aesthetic principles in Li’s sculpture are based not only on a ”dual composition” of Eastern traditions and Western sculptural language but also on an ongoing dialogue with the spiritual and material cultures of Africa and Oceania. Furthermore, Li Chen’s art works aspire to a spiritual arts therapy, uncovering a wealth of joy amidst the life’s simple pleasures, innovating a spiritual space through humorous metaphors of worldly affairs.
 

Li Chen will be travelling to New York City in early June where the Outstanding Achievements in the Sculptural Arts Award will be presented to him in a special event dedicated to the artist.

 

For more information | https://www.museumsinisrael.org/honored-artists

 

June 1, 2024