Lu Chen Shih (Chris Lu) : Fluctuation Painting

Lu Chen Shih (Chris Lu) work title: Fluctuation Canvas and Ink, 140cm x 100cm, 2016 The effects display an interaction between arc movements of arm and special tool which can be used to apply paint in the air Chen-Shih Lu Statement In this series, the bodily movement of the artist is given full significance. The restraint of artist’s bodily movement is like a restraint of time and space. As a unity of spatiality and temporality, bodily experience, has proposed its possible freedom by liberating time and space from restricted conditions in Lu’s works. The art works where the bodily movement of the artist was art itself, has been selected. The work begins with an understanding of how Lu’s work embodies the arc movement of his palms, arms or fingers. Where most of the art works concerning bodily movements have represented a performer in a more physical setting, Lu’s work attempts to present a wholly absent body. The body is characterized for its movements, but the physical nature of the body would be amiss here. An abstracted bodily movement is hence the main aim here. Another significant element in Lu’s work is that work attempts to construct how the process of time can be understood. In Lu’s personal experience the process of time is often viewed by a paradox of both succession and simultaneity. In the lines of spray or ink, the chains of moulding holes, or the links of fingerprints, he create the process of time is presented in this exact paradox. A mechanical movement of resemblance and equivalence is both presented here and the works show how succession seem to negate the presence of time. Because of the loop between lightness and darkness, thickness and thinness, between different angles or different moments, between different layers or brightness, the past, the present and the future, becomes meaningless in the context of this artistic discourse. Also, due to the use of opening box, transparency and mirror for the bodily movement, the difference between up and down or left and right, loses its significance in the visual language.

Multi-paneled Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:55.1 W x 39.4 H x 0.9 D in

Number of Panels:2

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