A Passage Through Forms // Lu Luo

Visit the solo exhibition A Passage Through Forms by Lu Luo from March 19 to April 16 at MPV Gallery in Oisterwijk.
OPENING
Sunday March 19
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
In the presence of the artist.

Chinese-born artist Lu Luo grew up amidst the bustle of an opera house, accompanying her parents and their theater troupe on their tours of the province. Lu Luo still draws inspiration from this period of her life. In her work she frequently uses elements of traditional Chinese theater costumes and textiles, which she processes in an abstract way into expressive colorful works of art.

With the works within the exhibition “A Passage Through Forms” we see the development of a new turn. Where she first placed the pronounced form of traditional costumes and the original fabrics of costumes directly on the canvas, she now opts for a more abstract approach in which only the association with the theater pieces and nostalgia for earlier times is still visible.

“A Passage Through Forms not only refers to the different shapes in
and of my works, it points to the material body as it modulates through time.
For me, this show brings together the narrative of some different periods
throughout my career as an artist.”
– Lu Luo –

The use of color and lines in her work can be seen as a representation of the different paths she has taken in her career. Paths of “patience, perseverance and light”. In doing so, she not only tries to bridge the gap between different periods in her career, but also between different cultures. She uses the canvas as a stage on which different stories come together

Lu Luo studied art at Si Chuan College of Fine Arts in Chongqing. There she meets her future husband, also an artist, Zhuang Hong Yi. She left with him for the Netherlands in 1992, where they continued their art education at the Academy Minerva in Groningen. They currently reside alternately in China and the Netherlands, where they have studios in Beijing and The Hague respectively.