The Impossible Art Of Li Wei

Chinese artist Li Wei from Beijing started off his performance series ‘Mirroring’ and later on took off attention with his ‘Falls’ series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics.
Check out 14 more pics of Li Wei’s artwork over the various years after the jump.
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April 21st, 2008 at 12:44 am
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April 21st, 2008 at 1:33 am
He’s doing it WRONG!
April 21st, 2008 at 2:11 am
All those upside down pics make me dizzy…
April 21st, 2008 at 3:22 am
I prefer the impossible art of Free Tibet!!
April 21st, 2008 at 3:41 am
Please, PLEASE, for the love of GOD PLEASE -stop- using the phrase “after the jump”!
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April 21st, 2008 at 4:04 am
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April 21st, 2008 at 11:14 am
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April 21st, 2008 at 12:17 pm
that is one hot asian mama!
April 21st, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Must be some sort of PS tricks… still, pretty stunning effects~
April 21st, 2008 at 1:17 pm
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April 21st, 2008 at 1:35 pm
dyemet, it’s possible! O_O
April 21st, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Man, those photos look so frickin’ real. I got vertigo just looking at them.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:46 pm
All those upside down pics make me dizzy…
April 21st, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Whoa , those are so cool. It’s just wires?
April 21st, 2008 at 10:15 pm
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April 22nd, 2008 at 3:01 pm
very clever. We all have our own way of being creative and this has obviously had to have taken thought and time. well done.
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:20 pm
hey dogeater,
You don’t know enough about the Tibetan issue. Don’t follow the herd. Meanwhile, just enjoy the art here.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
I think the Tibetan issue is well known, so I don’t care to mention here. But where is the art to enjoy?
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Don’t use western attitude to look at Tibetan issue. Look back to the history of Vietnam and what you do to Chinese people hundreds years ago, using opium to kill millions of Chinese .
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:25 am
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April 23rd, 2008 at 3:24 am
photoshop magic!
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April 24th, 2008 at 2:06 am
Yes. Please PLEASE stop saying “after the jump”. It’s stupid, and it doesn’t even apply here anyways. There was no jump. There were just more pictures after you said “after the jump”.
April 24th, 2008 at 5:52 am
thomas, how the fk would u know what dog knows?
April 24th, 2008 at 6:00 am
Ghehe, nice set of photoshopped pic!
April 24th, 2008 at 6:04 am
oic. he states that he uses ps to remove the scaffolding and wires, (body) etc. but not to juxtapose images. i’m down with that.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
First picture seems dangerous.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
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April 24th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
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April 25th, 2008 at 6:34 am
interesting and nice to look at…but please don’t get stuck on this..it’ will get boring after a few more…
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April 30th, 2008 at 12:45 am
If the message is the medium, he might as well just Photoshop the images all the way and save the setup work.
The images get a bit boring after the first few. Sort of a one trick pony, no?
April 30th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
If the message is the medium, he might as well just Photoshop the images all the way and save the setup work.
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May 1st, 2008 at 2:52 am
WHAT THE HELL …
May 1st, 2008 at 4:31 am
Great photos!
May 1st, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Well, it’s one way of getting one’s 15 seconds of fame.
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May 9th, 2008 at 11:13 am
This guy sucks and needs to find a new job pronto.
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May 9th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
bizarre. love it!
May 10th, 2008 at 1:33 am
i heard he got those shorts in tibet. they were made as an arts and crafts by the dali lama and brad pitt during filming of seven years in etc…li wei must have paid good money for those because i haven’t noticed a fade or sign of age on the shorts. i wonder where he got his shirts. probably made in china? i don’t know, off to mcdonalds.
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