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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.
Source: Li Wei Art
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July 26th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
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July 27th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Li-Wei has taken an otherwise impossible artistic venue and turned it into factual fung-shuei. Bravo, Li!!! Bravo!!!–The Eliza Doolittle Mother-in-lawz of the World sing your praises forever more…you shall go down in the annuls of time as one of the greatest photo-journalists who ever crawled the face of the earth–next to Ansel Adams of course. Keep on truckin my friend–You definately have my vote!…
July 27th, 2008 at 12:23 am
Li-Wei has taken an otherwise impossible artistic venue and turned it into factual fung-shuei. Bravo, Li Wei!!! Bravo!!!–The Eliza DooLittle Mother-in-Law’s of the World sing your praises forever more…you shall go down in the annuls of time as one of the greatest photographer’s ever to crawl the face of the earth–next to Ansel Adams of course. Keep on truckin my friend. You definately have my vote…..!
July 27th, 2008 at 4:26 am
Bellissime immagini. Saluti dall’Italia.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:51 am
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July 28th, 2008 at 8:51 am
ho hum…
boring…. one note junk
and HEY he’s an artist!!!
July 29th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Wow this is amazing. I wonder how he does it. He looks like he’s getting his butt whooped worse than the squirrels on Nuttcups from Digitalfuntown.com. Pretty cool stuff.
July 29th, 2008 at 3:49 am
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July 29th, 2008 at 10:42 am
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July 29th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
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August 1st, 2008 at 2:40 am
Photojournalism? mmmmm no.
Dead-on camera self-timer sensibility? Really tightly tied shoes? Occasional help throwing his body? Check, check, check!
Nice shot (but always in afternoon light)? Check!
August 1st, 2008 at 10:25 am
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August 2nd, 2008 at 1:40 am
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August 26th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
To all the over-tech’ed plebes who think this could only be done with Photoshop: You are very wrong and very ignorant. These pics were taken with old-school photography tricks, i.e., wires, mirrors, scaffolds, and some very talented acrobats as models. All you have to do is try to edit them in Photoshop to realize there are no pieces to remove, there is no pasting to be undone. This is what photographic art SHOULD be.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:14 am
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August 28th, 2008 at 2:19 am
Dude it reminds me of those dreams you have where everything just glitches and you suddenly fall out of your bed through an upside down manhole and you crash into a scyscraper below you. The Matrix “the spoon is a lie” effect and all that kind of jazz. Free-king BRILLIANT
I’m diggin the whole only-edit-out-cables thing. For those who choon “It’s fake you @$%# assholes”, it’s called art. It’s not supposed to be real. It’s like the opposite of real. Which makes it even more real than the real real. Get cultured and cultivated bru!
August 29th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
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September 1st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
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September 10th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
[...] gang hatt lyst til å gjøre sånn med noen? Det har jeg. På bildet over er kunstneren Li Wei (han som henger i lufta). Han har laget en rekke helt syke bilder uten å engang røre photoshop. [...]
September 26th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
i can see his penis
September 29th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
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November 29th, 2008 at 2:55 am
Li Wei is a real surrealist. don’t let the bas*ards get you down! sorry about the opium thing.
December 2nd, 2008 at 3:40 pm
itz that for real?!!!!
December 7th, 2008 at 8:47 am
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December 17th, 2008 at 11:15 am
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December 23rd, 2008 at 5:50 am
somebody needs to get this guy a new pair of shorts from 2008
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January 26th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
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February 7th, 2009 at 9:59 am
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March 26th, 2009 at 7:59 am
this is obviously fake and therefore boring
nice try ching-chong
April 15th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
my brain’s all over the room.
April 17th, 2009 at 3:15 am
Wau! It looks like he is doing the impossible!!!
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:19 pm
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July 17th, 2009 at 2:23 am
Wow! Your photos are amazing! Love it!
July 20th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
This is most wonderful
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
He is awesome! He can do all those amazing pictures because he is Asian.
October 18th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
i think he’s taking a picture of a picture.. and sticking his head or body parts through that picture.. iono