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Lu Yanpeng

Series of Blossom with Buddha, 2014

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Series of Glimmer , 2012

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Blossom with Buddha

Wang Qi

One night in 2012, while situated in the ancient city of Weishan, amid a feast of lights, I met Lu Yanpeng.
The fireworks of the Torch Festival enticed the photographer to take up his camera after having a few drinks. He aimed the lens between two trees, above and below, two repeating motions—capturing the blooming spread of the fireworks along with their scattered dispersal.

As a product of the Industrial Revolution, photographic technology in this moment seems akin to a kind of ritual ceremony, participating in the revelry of this ancient festival without any wild ambitions of documenting history. These little lightening bug like sparks were seized as they fell, extending out into the darkness like the antennae or legs of an arthropod. While it is possible that this is the inherent naivety of Lu Yanpeng's work, it is also quite possible that he merely happened to record an intimate coupling between the muses and the real world—a singular moment of brilliant, breeding light, confirming the possibility of photography as a miraculous happenstance.

However, this isn't “the decisive moment”. Grabbing the camera, pressing the shutter— according to him, these actions are comparable to chasing the wind and clutching at shadows. The interplay of light and shadows he intuitively captures become brushstrokes in the darkroom, Lu Yanpeng relies upon them them to paint his photographs. In his early work Memory of Stones, his images are superimposed with paintings by his wife Ling Hua. According to Lu Yanpeng, this process was a way of superimposing him going out to shoot and Ling Hua staying home to paint during the same period. This series was the first to reveal the two simultaneous present moments within his work—the present of photographing and the present of the darkroom, an intermingling of viewing and the memory of viewing, interspersed with the glimmer of drunken merriment and the thick fog of primal chaos.

Consequently, the subject of his image is essentially dissolved, which allows his treatment of subject matter such as sacred peaks and buddhas to evade their objective weight. Similarly, his renderings of sacred peaks and buddhas are both physical form and contour, the thread of a brushstroke.
Early on, when drifting among remote mountains and temples, he painstakingly avoided making the buddha his subject and allowing religious sites to create an air of solemnity. Yet all the while, their sumptuous form always fascinated him, perhaps this, along with the contained subjectivity of photography, caused him to become a mere recorder of form and symbol. Later, he tried to photograph some secular images of local deities and folk customs in his ancestral village, allowing them to be more accessible to people. Even later, when he saw some Ming-Qing wooden buddha sculptures in my collection placed randomly around my home, completely separated from any religious context, he effortlessly captured their contours just like he photographed those fireworks.

The superimposition of fireworks and buddhas goes one step further to lessen their heft. Upon completion of an antique buddhist sculpture, a hole was formed in the back which was then stuffed with scripture, curses, grain, medicinal herbs, or precious metals and sealed in order to impart divine powers. Fireworks seem to be the products of the same craftsman responsible for this kind of traditional engraving—loaded with the sudden flash of divine light, fostering a sense of movement in the image, providing static physical forms with the possibility of continuous formation. Lu Yanpeng, as an intermediary of time and space, superimposes two present moments to form an exquisite flower to be offered before the buddha.

Outward Expressions, Inward Reflections

阿斗/蔡卫东/卢彦鹏/丘合辑

编辑：荣荣和映里、张黎、赵亮、董晓安
设计：何浩
翻译：董晓安、姜亦朋
装帧：四册平装+精装外盒
尺寸：120x178x46mm
ISBN：978-988-99667-4-4

Lu Yanpeng

1984 Born in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province
2005 Started to live and work in Beijing

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2015 "Revelator of Poetry", Yishu-8, Beijing, China
2015   "La Nuit d’Orient", Neri Contemporary Art, Vicenza, Italy
2015   "La Nuit d’Orient", Neri Contemporary, Paris, France
2014 "Sense of Presence", See+ Gallery, Beijing, China
2012   "To Build a Poetic Dwelling", Eastern Image Photo Gallery, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
2012   "Paysages Interdits", Yishu-8, Beijing, China
2012   "Open Air", Galerie du Monde, Hongkong
2012   "Open Air", M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
2011 "Open Air" The 11th China Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, Shanxi, China
2010 "Open Mountain", Yishu-8, Beijing, China
2009 "Out of Body", The 9th Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, Shanxi, China

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2014 "Image China", White Box Gallery, Portland, USA
2014 "Remote Landscape", Liege Photography Biennale, Liege Culture Art Center, Liege, Belgium
2014 "Paris Art Fair", Grand Palais, Paris, France
2014 "Hôtel de Région", Pays de la Loire-China Culture Festival, Nantes, France
2014 "Three Shadows 1st Experimental Image Open Exhibition", Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
2013 "Re-enchanter Le Monde", Yishu-8, Beijing, China
2013 "Parallax II", M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
2013 "Garden", Tokyo, Japan
2013 "Man-Made Mountain", Wei Gallery, Xiamen, Fujian, China
2013 "Imageina Tion", Galerie du Monde, Hongkong
2013 "Pioneer Domains Photographer", Charles de Gaulle Chinese Library, Paris, France
2013 "Garden, Zhouwei Art Gallery", Shanghai, China
2013 "Warm Spring", KuangYu Gallery, Kunming, Yunnan, China
2012 "The Asia Pioneer Photographer Foundation", Taipei Photography Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 "The Asia Pioneer Photographer Foundation", Dali International Photography Festival, Dali, Yunnan, China
2012 "Resurvey The Landscape", Dali International Photography Festival, Dali, Yunnan, China
2012 "Beyond Babu Space", Beijing, China
2012 "Remote Landscape", See+ Gallery, Beijing, China
2012 "18-Photographers", 208 Gallery, Paris, France
2011 "The Two Epson", Imaging Gallery, Beijing
2011 "SUAN TIAN KU LA: 4 saveurs, 4 photographes, 4 regards sur la société chinoise", Angers, France
2011 "Recurrent Shadows", He Xiangning Art Gallery, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
2011 "Open Air", Hewlett-Packard Art House, Beijing, China
2011 "Manifestation of Image", Kuan Yu Gallery, Kunming, Yunnan, China
2011 "Kalei Doscope", LuoCa Modern Art Gallery, Xiamen, Fujian, China
2010 "Another Landscape", Chengdu International Photography Arts Center, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
2010 "The Two Pingyao International Photography Festival", Pingyao, Shanxi, China
2010 "M97 Artists Summer Group Exhibition", M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
2010 "Another landscape 2nd International Dali Film Festival", Dali, Yunnan, China
2010 "The One", Around Gallery, Shanghai, China
2010 "Jimei International Modern Festival New Young Artists Exhibition", LuoCa Modern Art Gallery, Xiamen, Fujian, China
2010 "Another Landscape", 798 Inter Art Center & Gallery, Beijing, China
2010 "The Possibility of Uncertainty", Songzhuang Museum, Beijing, China
2009 "Out of Body Pingyao International Photography Festival", Pingyao, Shanxi, China
2009 "BALANCE Photography Exhibition", Beijing, China
2009 "BCA The Market Summer", Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing, China
2009 "Points of Impact – China Through the Eyes of Young Photographers", Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
2008 "New Generation Chinese Photography", Hong Kong
2006 "3030 New Photography in China", Shanghai, China

AWARDS:
2012 Top 10 Asia Pioneer Photographer Award – The 4^th Dali International Photography Festival, China
2011 Photographers Companion 2011 Annual Young Photographers Award, China
2011 AAC Art China-Annual Young Artist Award Nomonation, China
2011 The 11th Pingyao International Photography Festival Photographers Awards, China
2011 Netherlands FOAM Photography Museum Foam paul huf World 100 Photographers Award Nomination
2010 Pixel Magazine 2010 Annual Pioneer Photographer Award, China
2010 Se Ying Wu Ji Annual New Pioneer Photographer Award, China
2009 Three Shadow Photography Newcomer Award, China

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Outward Expressions, Inward Reflections阿斗/蔡卫东/卢彦鹏/丘 合辑

Outward Expressions, Inward Reflections

阿斗/蔡卫东/卢彦鹏/丘合辑