In Dialogue Between Past and Present | Lu Fang

For the first exhibition after the Chinese New Year holiday in 2017, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art has invited four promising contemporary artists of realist art from different fields to hold four respective exhibitions. The attempt corresponds to one of the museum's long-term objectives, which is to "strive for increasing the visibility of Taiwanese contemporary realist art." We also hope that the artistic warmth of the works would capture the attention of international and domestic art lovers and lead our audience to care about the contemporary environment and society.

In Dialogue Between Past and Present, Lu Fang shows his work created after his return in 2009 until the present day. Ever since his childhood, Lu has experienced several changes of environment, having moved to the US and back to Taiwan and went on to study in Spain. Therefore, his work has always centered on the cultural differences between the East and the West with an emphasis on the integration of classical art and contemporary art. He assumed the role of Mr. Big Nose in his solo exhibition of “Mr. Big Nose in Wonderland” in 2010, which not only conveyed a sense of humor but also created an anachronistic feeling for the audience through viewing classic paintings from a contemporary perspective. His recent series, A Play on Classic Painting in 2014, adopts the approach of appropriation to combine modern social landscape with classic paintings. The creation of such work requires both advanced classic painting skills and much ingenuity in image composition. It is our hope that audience could temporarily escape from the boisterous world and enter the fantastic world created by Lu while viewing his exhibition.