LI YUAN CHIA

2025-09-13

2026-01-18

Opening

‍

Locations

WINSING ART PLACE

Li Yuan-Chia was born in Guangxi in 1929 and moved to Taiwan after World War II. Early in his career, he was inspired by the modernist ideas of Li Chun-Shan, developing a unique pictorial vocabulary that fused traditional ink with abstract expression. As a founding member of the Ton-Fan Art Group, he played a leading role in the first wave of postwar modern painting in Taiwan.

In the 1960s, Li’s work took on a minimalist, enigmatic, and conceptual character, revealing a vast cosmological schema within restrained expressivity. He began to develop the “point”—a concept and motif that would run through his entire career. After moving to Bologna, Italy, in 1962, he joined the art group Punto, transforming the picture plane into a site for manipulation, cutting, and reconstruction, shifting viewers’ attention from painterly brushwork to geometric composition.

Exhibition view: Untitled, 2022. Photo © Gerardo Landa & Eduardo Lopez - GLR Estudio

No items found.

1 / 25

Artist Biography

Li Yuan Chia

Born in Guangxi in 1929, Li Yuan Chia moved to Taiwan after the war, entered the art department of Taipei Normal School. He was one of the founding members of the Oriental Painting Society, inspired by modern art ideas. Moving to Italy in 1961, he joined the European vanguard art movement Punto, where his work moved towards minimalism, conceptualization, and developed the core theme of his creative career, “Point”. Moving to London in 1967, he held several exhibitions with the Leeson Gallery, proposing the concept of Toyart, and became one of the earliest pioneers in the UK to practice participatory art and composite works. Moving to Cambria, Northern England in 1969, he independently expanded the farmhouse into the LYC Museum and Art Gallery, which from 1972 to 1982 hosted more than 200 exhibitions and became an important modern art hub in Northern England. His work spans calligraphy, painting, light relief, interactive installations, tapestries and photographic prints. At its core, “Dots” forms a unique artistic language that combines oriental spirit and cosmic imagery.

ARTIST PAGE

No items found.