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New York Weekend
October 12 – 14, 2009
January 21 – April 4, 2010 | Tufts University Art Gallery
VII and the Institute for Global Leadership team up to present a retrospective of the work 0f VII photographers to mark the 25th anniversary of EPIIC. Exposure
The Chinese artist Lu Lin leans back into a sectioned couch in the corner of his hangar-like studio in Song Zhuang, a traditional village turned artist community to the East of Beijing. The figure of the artist is dwarfed by the towering canvases around the open room: dramatic, mixed media works that mingle traditional Chinese painting formats with total abstraction and sweeps of bright color. It is clear from his studio that Lu does well by his art. Yet, “When people ask me what Chinese contemporary art is like,” the artist says, narrowing his eyes, “I say that China has no contemporary art.”.
