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Li Wenpeng (b. 1991)

Once Upon a Time There Was a Mountain No. 2

2017

Woodblock print

90 x 90 cm

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Another of the MET’s youngest artists (no. 129), Li Wenpeng was Second Prize Winner in the Muban Educational Trust Printmaking Awards in 2018. He uses the vocabulary of the wood engraving in his woodblock prints, with finely cut imagery on a scale more akin to Baroque engravings on metal. Li’s prints are full of small motifs, very skilfully blended into the textured layers of the scene: one spots another temple or spiritual being every time one looks.

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Muban Educational Trust registration number livwp001

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