Jointly with MadeIn Gallery from Shanghai, Humarish Club is pleased to present "Untitled (Artist)", the first solo exhibition of Chinese contemporary artist Lu Pingyuan in Macau starting from 17th March, 2023. The exhibition features important series of paintings, drawings and sculptures emerged from the artist’s recent exhibitions and research. Lu creates “story” characters derived from his inspirations that subtly respond to personal narratives interweaved with art history, opening up a unique and conceptual window of surrealism that leads us to reflect on the history of art and the origin of experience.
LU PINGYUAN
Lu Pingyuan was born in 1984 in Zhejiang province, China. He lives and works in Shanghai. Lu Pingyuan’s artworks involves a variety of media, including texts, installations, videos, paintings and others. For a few years, Lu Pingyuan concentrated his practice on the writing of “stories” as a unique type of media for art creation. These short “stories” significantly broaden the artworks’ state of existence in the real world, extend the inherent spirit of art itself. His works have been exhibited extensively in both national and international museums and biennales
" In "Untitled (Artist)", Lu extends his flexible appropriation of art history symbols and pop culture classics, deconstructing the myth of the artist's talent with multi-layered imageries. "
♦ The exhibition is divided into four series ♦ ——
Look! I’m Picasso!
Look! I’m Picasso! collages the facial features of Mr. Potato from Toy Story on top of Cubist portraits. The unconventional coupling of popular and elite culture triggers new dynamics that embody the artist’s ambition throughout different stages of his career.
Lingua Playful
Lingua Playful translates Lu’s inspiration from film and everyday life into floating blue elves, inviting the viewer to touch the uncharted territory of language communication from an iconographic perspective.
Nature Noir
The shapeshifting Barbabeau travels through diversified painting scenes in the Nature Noir series, referring to the artist's subjectivity and the uncertainty in his artmaking process.
The Witch's Diary
The artist's methodology also resides in the biscuit relief of The Witch's Diary, while Lu transforms himself into the wizard who "bakes" the sculptures. The imagination about "artmaking as ensouling, artmaking as adventure" is thereby fermented and solidified within a seemingly crisp scene.
