An Te Liu

An Te Liu is a Taiwanese-Canadian artist, living and working in Toronto. His practice refers to the aesthetics and heritage of modernist design and architecture, through a post-modern approach. By molding his sculptures from polystyrene pieces, the artist transforms the futile consumption of disposable objects into a purely creative act. According to the artist, this mocking reappropriation of the modernist ideology also translates the material essence of the contemporary world. An Te Liu’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally (Ursula Blickle Stiftung (2005), Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (2006), Venice Biennale of Architecture (2008), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (2009), EVA Ireland (2009), and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2011)). The artist has also been in residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, which published the monograph An Te Liu: Matter (2009). More recently, the catalog An Te Liu: MONO NO MA (2013) was published by the Gardiner Museum in conjunction with his solo exhibition there.

About the Artist

An Te Liu is a Taiwanese-Canadian artist, living and working in Toronto. His practice refers to the aesthetics and heritage of modernist design and architecture, through a post-modern approach. By molding his sculptures from polystyrene pieces, the artist transforms the futile consumption of disposable objects into a purely creative act. According to the artist, this mocking reappropriation of the modernist ideology also translates the material essence of the contemporary world. An Te Liu’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally (Ursula Blickle Stiftung (2005), Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (2006), Venice Biennale of Architecture (2008), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (2009), EVA Ireland (2009), and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2011)). The artist has also been in residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, which published the monograph An Te Liu: Matter (2009). More recently, the catalog An Te Liu: MONO NO MA (2013) was published by the Gardiner Museum in conjunction with his solo exhibition there.

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