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The gravity-defying sculptural works of Zheng Lu (b. 1978) are installed in public spaces throughout China, including a monumental work at the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing. Pulsing with movement, they evoke splashes of water in mid-air. They are technically astonishing; their fluid, animated forms are charged with the energy (qi) of the universe, belying their steel composite. Many are deeply influenced by his study of traditional Chinese philosophy, and often calligraphy, an art form he practiced growing up in a literary family. Zheng Lu is known for using language as a pictorial element, composing the surface of stainless-steel sculptures out of thousands of Chinese characters derived from texts and poems of historical significance. 

 

With recent work, the artist continues to explore water, long a subject of fascination. Early Chinese philosophers used physical principles of the natural world to better understand the mysteries of the cosmos and the nature of man. Water, a shapeless medium that can be potent or supple, dynamic or latent, can take on abundant meaning and serve as a tangible model embedded with ideas. For Zheng, it is not only an element essential to existence, but a substance symbolic of change, self-reflection and the passage of time. 

 

Zheng Lu graduated from Lu Xun Fine Art Academy, Shenyang, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in sculpture in 2003. In 2007, he completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, while also attending an advanced study program at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris. 

 

The artist has participated in numerous museum exhibitions in China and abroad, including at the National Museum of China, Beijing; Long Museum, Shanghai, and Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art; Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem; Musée Océanographique, Monaco; Musée Maillol, Paris; and The Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow. In 2015, the artist’s work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, one of the leading institutions in the region. In 2023, his work was featured at Asia Society Texas in Houston in the exhibition Summoning Memories: Art Beyond Chinese Traditions.

 

Born in Chi Feng, Inner Mongolia| Lives and works in Beijing
 

Houston, Texas
Museum Exhibition
Houston, Texas
Zheng Lu: Summoning Memories: Art Beyond Chinese Traditions at Asia Society Texas February 10 – July 2, 2023

Sculpture by Beijing-based artist Zheng Lu is on view in Summoning Memories: Art Beyond Chinese Traditions which highlights works by more than 30 contemporary artists of Chinese descent who reinterpret traditions in dynamic and innovative ways. 

 

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SINGAPORE
Public Installation
SINGAPORE
Zheng Lu Sculpture Slated for Gillman Barracks January 13, 2017

We are pleased to announce that STG artist Zheng Lu will be installing a large-scale sculpture at Gillman Barracks as part of the outdoor public art project Lock Route, which will open to the public January 13 during Gillman Barracks’ Art After Dark event. The bespoke sculpture is part of the artist’s Shiosai series and will be on view until June 30. The Lock Route project, which will include a number of sculptures, was commissioned by the Gillman Barracks Programme Office and curated by Khairuddin Hori.


 

Zheng Lu at the Long Museum
Museum Exhibition
Zheng Lu at the Long Museum
Shanghai Through December 21, 2016

Re-sist-ance is gallery artist Zheng Lu’s first large-scale solo museum show in Shaghai. It comprises eight new works produced in 2016 that explore the aesthetics of resistance. This follows a successful solo exhibition at Taipei’s Museum of Contemporary Art in 2015. 

 

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