Li Yuan-Chia  李元佳  pinyin Li Yuanjia

1929

Li Yuan-Chia  李元佳 ( 1929-1994 ), was born on April 6, in Guangxi Province, in South

China.

1949

He left to study at the Provincial School of Education in Taiwan and then he entered

the workshop of Li Chun-Shan ( 1912-1984 ) whose teaching, influenced by the West,

was not at all conventional.

1955

He was part of the of the first Chinese art movement with an abstract tendency :

the Ton-Fan group, in pinyin  dongfang huahui 东方画会 Orient Movement.

With Chen Tao Ming, Hsia Yan, Ho Kan, Hsiao Ming-Hsien, Hsiao Chin, Ouyang Wen-Yuan,

Wu Hao, they became the eight outlaws, as they were called, because of their revolt with

respect to artistic standards.

1956

The group's first exhibition in Taipei will be followed by many others: in Taipei, but

also in Italy, Spain, Germany and United States.

1963

He moved to Italy, to Bologna and began to develop the cosmic point, that will become

the focus of his work.

1965

He joined the international group of abstract artists  il Punto, composed of Hsiao Chin,

of Antonio Calderara and the Japanese Kengiro Azuma.

1966

He was invited to exhibit at the Signal Gallery and then at the Lisson Gallery in London.

He then placed his works on a carpet of autumn leaves and created installations

of suspended objects through which the public moved.

 1968

He came to live in Banks, North East Cumbria United Kingdom.

1972

He founded the LYC Museum and Art Gallery ( initials of his name ).

1994

He died of cancer in Carlisle, United Kingdom, at the age of 65.

Danièle Sicard

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1961

1963

Punto 1  Galleria Cadario Milan  Italy

1965

Antologia di Punto 5  All’Insegna del Pesce d’Oro  Milan  Italy.

1967

3 + 1 : Hsiao Chin Ho Kan Li Yuan-Chia  Signals Gallery London United Kingdom.

1967

07.06  08.26  Cosmic  Point  Lisson Gallery  London United Kingdom.

1998

2001

26.01 18.03   Li Yuan-Chia  Tell Me What Is Not Yet Said  Solo exhibition  Camden Arts

Centre  London  United Kingdom.

2001

27.03 03.06   Li Yuan-Chia  Tell Me What Is Not Yet Said Solo exhibition Abbot Hall Art

Gallery  Kendal  United Kingdom.

2001

Li Yuan-Chia  Tell Me What Is Not Yet Said Solo exhibition  Palais des Beaux-Arts  

Brussels  Belgium.

2014

Viewpoint  a retrospective ofLi Yuan-chia  Taipei Fine Arts Museum  Taiwan.

2019

18.05 15.12  Li Yuan-Chia  Unique Photographs  The Whitworth  Manchester  United Kingdom.

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                                Li Yuan-Chia Foundation                                               http://www.lycfoundation.org/  

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Li Yuan-Chia  李元佳 - oil on canvas  1962

Li Yuan-Chia  李元佳

Li Yuan-Chia  李元佳

Li Yuan-Chia  李元佳  -  Untitled  -  Ink, watercolor on paper  77.6 x 36 cm  -  circa 1958

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