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Wang Luyan Biography
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Actively engaged in China’s avant-garde art movement since the late 1970s, Wang was deeply involved with the New Measurement Group, a three-member initiative of Conceptual artists that existed from 1988 to 1995. Introducing the rules of analytic geometry into their practice, the New Measurement Group explored the possibilities of communicating experiences and perceptions through quantities and measurements as opposed to erratic individuality.
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A trained mechanical engineer, Wang Luyan’s individual practice has stemmed from his fascination with mechanical design but more importantly, the potential complex and paradoxical relationship of all kinds as embodied in the intricate makeup of machinery. In his series of minimalist paintings and masculine mechanical sketches, Wang Luyan exposes the inner designs of sawing machines, guns, tanks, screws, wristwatches, scissors, bicycles and so on and incorporates his alterations and manipulations into these designs to suggest thorny international political relationships as well as more general situations where forces from all sides contain and implicate each other. The initiation of a contradictory setup into the intrinsic system of these devices becomes a trademark of Wang’s designs, which are all branded as ‘W’, after the first letter in his family name. Weapons whose bullets flew in both directions could harm not only those they are aimed at, but those who fired them as well; wristwatches with an extra set of hour and minute hands or wheels whose movements confining one another no longer indicate valid time, but inconsolable paradoxes. (Carol Lu and Liu Ding, Temperament of Detail)
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Lives and works in Beijing
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2006
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6th Shanghai Biennale - Hyper Design, “Shanghai Biennale”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
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2006
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“Jiang Hu”, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
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2005
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Convergence at E116/N40, Beijing 2005, “International Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Platform China, Beijing
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2002
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The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, “Guangzhou Triennial”, Guangzhou, Guangdong
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