| 2007 - 08 various sizes and editions Pigment print on fine art paper
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| About the work: Lu Jun's large-scale photography works use the three fundamental elements of Chinese landscape painting - water, ink, and paper - combined with techniques of modern photography to create poetic landscapes that flow in both form and color. Lu Jun's motivation as an artist is to create rather than to imitate, using the tools available to him as a contemporary photography artist. 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 traditional Chinese painting. 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. |
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