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Solo Exhibition of Lu Pingyuan – "Untitled (Artist) "

29/03/2023
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. Esteemed guests to attend the inauguration include Ms. Angela Leong, Member of Macau Legislative Assembly and President of Dr. Stanley Ho Foundation, Mr. Lu Pingyuan, Mr. Sun Qidong, Curator of the exhibition, together with Mr. Hua Yuzhou, Founder and Art Director of Humarish Club. 
 
Lu Pingyuan's practice starts with a series of fantasy stories paralleled with art and real life. Coding multiple cultural genes through imagination, he calls out phantoms that shuttle between the opposing worlds of ancient-modern, imaginary-real, artificial-natural, material-spiritual, and process-outcome. He applies a fluid medium to integrate storytelling, painting, sculpture, video, installation, music, and the action of artmaking into an entirety. This phantomlike approach creates a seemingly naive yet profound 'otherness' that broadens the boundaries of inherent knowledge systems, image production and behavioral patterns transcending the framework of dichotomy.
 
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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
 
As the greatest practitioner and questioner of his art, Lu’s instantaneous and versatile artistic language deviates from the barrier of modernism. He captures transcendental memes through tales, guiding people who have faith in storytelling to confront the stagnant pool of mental exhaustion with surrealism, and find the eternity of art via a novel way of examining our existence.
 
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About 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. 
 
Recent solo exhibitions include: “One Night at a Gallery”, SSSSTART Museum, Shanghai, China, 2022; “Trapping Cooking, Cooking Trapping, It’s a Lovely Life”, OCAT SHENZHEN, Shenzhen, China, 2022; “The First Artist”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2021; “Imperishable Affection”, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China, 2020; “KOLA”, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “La Malle aux Trésors”, Mansion de Hermès, Shanghai, China, 2018; “Lost Child”, ONEHOME Art Hotel, Shanghai, China; “HOME ALONe”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2017; “Hidden Treasure”, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China, 2017; “James Stanley-The Seventh Earl of Derby”, Center for Chinese Contemporary Art, United Kingdom, 2016; “ON KAWARA”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2016; “Unexpected Discoveries”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2015; “Time Capsule”, Gallery Box, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011; “Autonomous Breathing”, M50 Creative Space, Shanghai, 2010.
 
He participated in numerous group exhibitions, including: “START”, Start Museum, 2022-23, Shanghai, China, 2022-23;“We Borrow Dreams From Others, Like Debt”, MadeIn Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2022; “Emotion and Universe”, Harvest Moon Art Centre, Chengdu, China, 2022;“Ever-Curious, Mickey: The Original & Ever Curious Exhibition Shanghai Stop, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2021; “Wild Metropolis”, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Advent: Inventing Landscape, Producing the Earth”, Qianshao Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Extreme Mix-Guangzhou Airport Biennale”, Guangzhou, China, 2019; “Land of the Lustrous”, UCCA Dune, Beidaihe, China, 2019;  “Edge of the Wonderland-Thailand Art Biennale”, Krabi, Thailand, 2018; “Artist is Present”, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018; “City Unbounded-China · Shanghai Jing’an International Sculpture Project”, Jing’an Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China, 2018; “This is Shanghai”, Cunard Building, Liverpool, UK, 2018; “Long March Project: Building Code Violations III - Special Economic Zone”, Long March Space, Beijing, China, 2018; “Arts in Urban Cultures”, Taikoo Li Sanlitun, Beijing, China, 2018; “*underground-children-festival”, Para Site x Goethe-Institute Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 2018; “Animamix Biennale—Ballade”, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China; “PLAY”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China; “11th Shanghai Biennale”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2016; “9th Liverpool Biennale”, Liverpool, England, 2016; “A Beautiful Disorder”, Cass Sculpture Foundation, England, 2016; “Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan”, Si Fang Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 2016; “3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art”, Ural, Russia, 2015 etc. Lu Pingyuan was nominated for the 4th Art Sanya “Huayu Youth Award” and the 1st Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year”. Lu Pingyuan’s work proposal, Tree, was shortlisted for the third and fourth High Line Plinth commission in 2020. 
 
Exhibition Details
Date and Time : 17th March 2023 (Friday) 16:00
Period and Hours : 18th March -13th April 2023
 (Monday to Sunday) 12:00 - 20:00
Venue : Humarish Club (Lisboeta Macau H853 Fun Factory Shop R68, R82-83)
Admission : Free admission for general public
 
For more event details, please visit our official website: https://www.humarish.com
Organiser:Humarish Club & MadeIn Gallery
Time of Event:12:00 - 20:00(Monday to Sunday)
Venue of Event:Humarish Club (Lisboeta Macau H853 Fun Factory Shop R68, R82-83)
Inquiry:(853) 6299 2695
E-mail:info@humarish.com
Website:www.humarish.com
Fee:Free admission
Start Time of Event:17/03/2023
End Time of Event:13/04/2023

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