ARTISTS >  LU Jun | 陆军

SELECTED WORKS
1.Photographic Ink & Wash
数字水墨
2.How Far From Us
离我们有多远
3.China Real Estate Dream
中国地产梦
4.Consumption Century
消费纪
 
Biography
2008 Group Exhibition
2009 Solo Exhibition

Lu Jun’s large-scale photography works use the three fundamental elements of Chinese landscape paintings - water, ink, and paper - combined with techniques of modern photography to create poetic landscapes that flow in both form and color. Water and ink captured in photographs, and under the artist’s control, blend together in dreamy clouds of color reinterpreting and advancing one of the most iconic forms of Chinese traditional art. Lu Jun’s motivation is to create rather than to mimic, using the tools available to him as a contemporary photography artist. His subject matter departs from tradition as well in his earlier series “Chinese Real Estate Dream” (2006). In these works - inspired by the real estate boom in Zhuhai (Guangdong Province) of the early 1990s - lyrical, loose brush strokes lead the viewer’s eye downward through what appears to be an idyllic landscape. Yet upon closer examination we see that perched atop the splotches of ink resembling mountaintops sit photographs of suburban villas and modern office high-rises, a depiction of an ever rapidly urbanizing countryside. The exhibition also features works from his most recent series: How Far From Us (2007) and The Scenery That I’ve Seen (2008), which lead the viewer into a realm of more abstract landscapes of ink, water, paper and photography.