Perpetual Motion Preface
By Zhao Li
As an imporatant representative of the new generation of artists, Lu Zhengyuan undertakes the dramatically changing fate of Chinese art and also preserves his uniqueness in face of new situations and problems. The young artist that grows up in the sculpture department of an academy doesn’t care about the speciality of media or intrinsic academic boundary from the very beginning, but he highlights the delight of experiment and diversity with more participation. As a result, Lu’s creation is more like an open structure, with the combination of media as well as the mutual tolerance of creation methods. Therefore, the order of his works is often parallel.
In recent years, Lu energetically shuttles among sculpture, installation, painting, behaviorial art and video, making practical progress in different fields. Consciously, he blurs the boundary of the fields so as to create various “creation wonders”. Meanwhile, he actively plans his works in a specific exhibition space or project instead of a private studio, and he is more willing to reflect his thinking path from a perspective of exhbition and interaction with the audience, gradually transforming the self-openness of creation into the public standpoint of interpreting concepts.
– Zhao Li