Lu Peng
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Lu Peng
1967 Born in Beijing
1987 Beijing Teachers Training College (now Capital Pedagogical University)
1991 Graduated BA, Arts & Humanities, Chinese Painting, Dept. of Fine Arts Teacher, Fine Arts Department, Beijing College of Education
1993-96 Formed the Three Travel Weary Loafers group with Wei Dong and Liang Chang Sheng
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[edit] Introduction
As with the majority of artists of his generation, those born during the Cultural Revolution, Lu Peng is preoccupied with the metamorphosis of Chinese society. The new market economy is voraciously appropriating spheres formerly the sole domain of the communist party. Propaganda posters have been replaced with commercial advertising. Communal canteens have lost out to McDonalds. American films like Titanic draw the crowds that once flocked to the Revolutionary Operas. Conformist communist pigtails have been spurned in favour of western cosmetics guaranteed to enhance one's quality of life.
Lu Peng's works are a collection of personal experiences, memories and fantasies, a metaphor for the estrangement and intimacy of contemporary China. The technique is traditional Chinese, ink and colour on paper, while the subject matter is everything but traditional, a chaotic and fascinating mix of the traditional, the communist and the consumer. Fragments of classical Chinese architecture and landscape are interrupted by skyscrapers. Deities from the past cavort with fashion goddesses of the present who sport the red arm band of the members of the ubiquitous neighbourhood surveillance committees or, on their backs, red flags from the Chinese opera. In recent works, walls symbolise present day society - the blindness of one side to the other and the still inscrutable nature of much of the administration's doings. In the Capital Nights series Lu Peng focusses on the night life of Beijing, a novelty in the communist capital imported from the West. He feels people are more themselves and less on their guard in the clubs and cafes of the night. As the artist says "We live in front of tradition, we live behind the vanguard. Our address - the edge of Paradise."
[edit] Solo Exhitions
2007
Fairyland, 798 Avant Gallery, New York, USA
A Fighting World of Female Beauty, 798 Avant Gallery, New York, USA
A Fighting World of Female Beauty, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong
2005
A Fighting World of Female Beauty, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
A Fighting World of Female Beauty, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, England
2004
Realm of Red, Qing Ping Gallery, Boston, USA
2003
Harmony / Unusual, International Art Palace. Beijing, China
Festival of Youth Art, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2nd Chinese Art Exhibition, Dalian, China
2002
Realm of Red, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Chinese Art of the Contemporary, Piltzer Gallery, Paris, France
2001
Beijing Buzz, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, England
Capital Night, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Past –Present, Art Center of Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Clues to the Future - Red Gate Gallery's 10th Anniversary, Beijing, China
On Track With the Century, The National Art Gallery of China (NAGC), Beijing, China
Legend of China, Yi Dian Gallery, Shanghai, China
2000
Between the Lines, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney. Australia
1999
Through the Wall, Chinese Contemporary, London, USA
1998
New Art from the PR of China, Lamont Gallery, Boston, USA
1997
The Edge, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, China
Floating, Exhibition of Small Works of Art, Ta Yuan Apt. Block, Beijing, China
1994
Exhibition of Small Works of Art, Mingzhu Gallery, Beijing, China
[edit] Group Exhibitions
2007
RED HOT - Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
2006
Red Gate Gallery’s 15th Anniversary, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia
New Ink Painting, Zhu Qizhan Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
China International Art Gallery Expo, China World Trade Center, Beijing, China
Oriental Imagination, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, China
Visual Contemporary, Millennium Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2005
Born in China, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA
Observing the Senses, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Portrait Paintings from Collage Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Frontline, Plum Blossoms, Hong Kong
New Generation, Goedhuis Gallery, New York, USA
Les Cent Fleurs, Villa Tamaris Center d'Art, France
2004
Paris Drouot Montaigne Arts Auction, France
Chinese Fine Art, International Art Palace, Beijing, China
Crowds and Voids 11 + 1, Art Scene China Gallery, Shanghai, China
2003
Microcosmic and Delicate, National Musuem of Art, Beijing, China
2nd Chinese Art Exhibition, Xinghai International Exhibition Centre, Dalian, China
Harmony / Unusual, International Art Palace
Festival of Youth’s Art, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2002
Autumn Group Show, Chinese Contemporary, London, England
2001
Past Present, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Chinese Mythology, Yidian Gallery, Shanghai, China
2000
Between the Lines, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Transparence, Opacite?, 14 Artistes Contemporains Chinois, ACAVA (Paris), Aoste, Aix-en-Provence, Paris, France
1998
Black & White, Chinese Contemporary, London, England
5000 + 10, Chinese Contemporary (London), Bilbao, Spain
Between the Lines, Chinese Art Exhibition, Lee Gallery, Beijing, China
1997
Summer Exhibition, Chinese Contemporary, London, England
Life on the Fringe, Lee Gallery, Lido Park, Beijing, China
1995
Small Chinese Inks Exhibition, Soobin Gallery, Singapore
Life on the Edge, The Three Travel Weary Loafers 2, International Art Palace, Beijing, China
1994
Second Professional Artists Exhibition, Armagna Gallery, Beijing, China
The Three Travel Weary Loafers, Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
1992
Beijing 90s, Chinese History Museum, Beijing, China
1991
Young Artists, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Beijing Young Artists Ink Paintings, Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Beijing, China
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