Empty Age –Lü Peng Solo Exhibition

Curator: Amy Y. Li

Opening Reception: 4pm-6pm, Jan 22 (Saturday), 2011

Duration: January 22 to February 28, 2011

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Empty Age

The Dialogue Space Gallery of Beijing will host a solo exhibition of Lü Peng titled “Empty Age”, that will last beyond the Chinese traditional new year, thus giving the long holiday a strong artistic flavor; moreover, these works that include paintings acrylic on canvas, color ink on paper, as well as sculptures by the artist, will be solemnly be shown here for the first time.

The subjects of Lü Peng’s painting are always characters with complex attitudes mixed with bits of traditional culture concepts; in this exhibition, Lü Peng lets the characters under his brush transcend time and space, intricately intertwining them to form a prominent human epic picture, and thereby reconstruct the “realness” of the age in which we live.

The characters in Lü Peng’s pictures always show exaggerated facial expressions or body movements, and even though they are trying to perform, looking for an outstanding space, yet they are unable to escape the fate of drowning in the mediocrity of the crowd. These bluff and buster gestures cannot hide the emptiness of their struggle, as they float among the clouds, and in everyone’s eyes this "Empty Age" is still like a wasteland.

Lü Peng, with his unique strokes reproduces the cultural emptiness of the present times, but proposes a deeper level of thinking - with the development of the times, how to preserve and transmit the proud heritage of the essence of our traditional culture.

The opening ceremony will take place on January 22nd, 2011 from 4 to 6 p.m. and the exhibition will be on display until February 28.