LU PENG CV

The theatrical canvases are flooded with detail, awash in saturated colours and floating symbols from a confused amalgam of the past and the present. The people become floating forms in a sea with no beginnings or endings.

Lu Peng's canvases paradoxically portray the contemporary society, particularly the chaotic and bewildering transformation that has characterised China's rise amidst the global market. His canvases are flooded with detail, awash in saturated colours and floating symbols from a confused amalgam of the past and the present. His canvases explore the 'perpetual state of dreaming', that people are in both their dreams of the past and the visions of the future. This explains the surreal quality of his works where memoirs clash with fantasies and cultural symbols come unhinged, quite literally, from their contexts to become elements of play in the compositions. The paintings are absurd playful depictions that are at once dense yet light.