Lu Jialin：Shanxin · Gengxin
5th Mar - 7th May, 2023
Lu Jialin：Shanxin · Gengxin
Hunsand Center for Contemporary Art（Shijiazhuang） will soon present artist Lu Jialin's solo exhibition "Shanxin · Gengxin" on March 5, 2023. The exhibition takes its name from two places in Guangxi Province that Lu Jialin saw during his travels. As he often goes on outdoor sketching trips, he has a strong memory for place names. The names of these two places have left a deep impression on him, so he has used them as the title for this exhibition.
Lu Jialin was born in Harbin and later enrolled in Guangxi Arts Institute. The huge geographical differences between the north and the south of China gave him a sense of distance when he first arrived in a different place. Every time he went to sketch in rural areas with studio team, facing the unique and unfamiliar natural and geographical environment, he found it difficult to integrate into the local cultural environment. With novelty and awe under the difference, Lu Jialin chose to observe and create from the perspective of an "onlooker" and the posture of a "player", so as to clarify his position when facing nature and depicting reality. This perspective brings a sense of respect and appreciation for the difference and homogeneity of life, so the brush strokes on the canvas generate the fisherman's drying net and the swaying branches under the breeze, and the formal beauty in the picture seems to emanate involuntarily. Correspondingly, perhaps because of the inability to integrate, the lightness also follows.
In order to be convenient to carry for outdoor sketching, these works generally have small sizes, but Lu Jialin has found his own way of creation through this, which can fully mobilize his true feelings when facing real scenes. Today's artists have more diverse means of accumulating image materials, such as cameras, PS, and AI. The use of color in the face of cultural differences is also a means of creation in the Internet age. The relatively primitive "sketch-style creation" is not common among young artists. But Lu Jialin still chose this "classical" way of creation. He liberated himself from the chaotic digital image world, measured reality with his feet, responded to the unfamiliar on the spot, and then wandered and perceived in this world that was constantly unfolding in front of him.
Lu Jjialin was born inHarbin, Heilongjiang in 1998. In 2017-2021 he studied in the Oil Painting Department of Guangxi Arts Institute, under the guidance of instructor Xie Sen’s Studio. From 2021 till now, he is postgraduate studying in the Oil Painting Department of Guangxi Arts Institute, under the guidance of instructor Xie Sen’s Studio. Now he is working and studying in Guangxi.
