Lv Peng
Lv Peng’s Theatre of the Mind: Tally Beck
Lv Peng creates in ink on paper and acrylic on canvas with equal facility. Regardless of medium, he constructs his paintings like fanciful stage sets. The background builds forward like a sequence of diaphanous backdrops, but the scenes are usually groundless; his players and their props float and fly, intertwined in a maelstrom of activity. An expert colourist, Lv Peng heightens the drama by enveloping his figures in billowing swaths of fabric in saturated hues.
After the Rain is an example of one of Lv Peng’s more exuberant works. A celebration of sunshine after a spring rain, the work features quotations from classic poetry. A modern Chinese couple dominate the upper section of the canvas. Their sumptuous silk outfits dance in the light as their visages react with intense interest to an unknown event offstage. Several small flags adorn the woman’s back: a reference to Beijing opera’s nod to the traditional warrior’s practice of carrying protective banners on his most vulnerable side.
The charming grace notes that contribute to the sumptuous composition are born of spontaneity: the obliterated face on the man below, the menacing mask on the woman’s shoulder above as well as her curious sporting of only one sock are all decisions that the artist himself cannot explain. He states that he creates these peculiarities in the moment. This allowance for serendipity combined with his painterly style creates the dynamic richness that characterises all of Lv Peng’s works.
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1967 |
Born in Beijing, China |
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1987-91 |
Capital Normal University Dept. of Fine Arts, Bachelor Degree of Arts |
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2007 |
PhD Chinese Painting Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) |
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Present: |
Associate Professor, Fine Arts Department of Beijing Institute of Education |
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2018 |
Party, Being 3 Gallery, Beijing |
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2015 |
Forbidden Books (2), Lotus Art Museum, Beijing |
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2014 |
Forbidden Books (1), Being 3 Gallery, Beijing |
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2011 |
Lost Realm, Red Gate Gallery |
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Empty Age, Dialogue Space of Art, Beijing |
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2010 |
Empty City, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong |
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2009 |
Empty City, Le Feuvre Gallery, Paris |
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2008 |
Lv Peng, Red Gate Gallery |
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2007 |
Wandering at Ease (2), 798 Avant Gallery, New York |
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Wandering at Ease, Plum Blossoms, Hong Kong |
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2005 |
A Fighting World of Female Beauty (2), Red Gate Gallery |
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A Fighting World of Female Beauty (1), Chinese Contemporary, London |
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2004 |
Memory, Qing Ping Gallery, Boston |
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2002 |
Realm of Red, Red Gate Gallery |
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2001 |
Capital Night, Red Gate Gallery |
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Capital Night, Chinese Contemporary |
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1999 |
Through the Wall, Chinese Contemporary |
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1997 |
The Edge, Chinese Contemporary |
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1996 |
Floating - Small Works, Tayuan Apartment, Beijing |
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1994 |
Lv Peng- Small Works, Mingzhu Gallery, Beijing |
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1991 |
Chinese - Small Works, Friendship Hotel, Beijing |
Group Exhibitions
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2019 |
Refinement & Extension – Contemporary Chinese Masters’ Delicate Gongbi Painting, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Beijing, Anhui |
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Beijing Letter, Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea |
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Aliens: Contemporary Chinese Art, East China Normal University, Shanghai |
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2018 |
2D vs 3D, Red Gate Gallery |
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798, We Are Back, Red Gate Gallery |
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2017 |
Red Gate on the Move, Red Gate Gallery |
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What if Ink? An Investigation of the Implications and Extensions of Ink, Songzhuang Art Museum, Songzhuang |
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Imperial Park – Shenzhen’ism China-Italy Biennale, Shenzhen |
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Presence of China: International Contemporary Art Forum, Hainan |
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2016 |
From Nature to Mind – Chinese Contemporary, Today Art Museum, Beijing |
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Now - Contemporary Painting, Baijia Lake Art 100 Gallery, Beijing |
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Metamorphosis – 4th China-Italy Biennial, Beijing |
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High Above – Chinese Contemporary Ink Masters’ Invitational, Tianmi Art Space, Shenzhen |
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2015 |
Image Study, Rightview Art Museum, Beijing |
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Yi Xing Huan Ying – Oriental Imagination VI, Permanence Gallery, Beijing |
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Elisir di lunga vita, 3rd Biennale Italia-China, Mastio della Cittadella, |
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A NEW FINE LINE: Contemporary Ink Painting from China, University of Colorado Denver, Denver |
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2014 |
2nd China-Italy Biennale Art, Beijing |
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Five Senses · Eight Artists – Chinese Contemporary, New Ink Image Gallery |
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2013 |
Green Box Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Museum, Zagreb La Biennale di Venezia, Venice Miniatures & Delicacies, Poly Museum of Art, Beijing Philosophical Interpretations of Paintings, China National Museum of Art, Beijing Chink of Time, Being 3 Gallery, Beijing Made in China, Mantova Palazzo Te, Italy The World, Prajna Art Foundation, Hong Kong Logic of Ink, Space Gallery Beijing |
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2012 |
Two Generations - 20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art Australian Tour: City of Sydney Chinese New Year; Manning Regional Gallery; Damien Minton Gallery; University of Newcastle Gallery; Melbourne International Fine Arts (MiFA); Linton & Kay, Perth |
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Multiple Layers, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai The Adventures of the Three Travel Weary Loafers 2012, Today Art Museum, Beijing Seriousness & Frivolousness, Meilun Art Museum, Wuhan Contemporary Ink from 5 Artists, Poly Museum Beijing Italy and China Biennale, Monza |
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2011 |
20 Years - Two Generations of Artists at Red Gate, island6 Art Center, Shanghai |
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20 Years - Two Generations of Artists at Red Gate, Red Gate Gallery |
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2010 |
Illusory Worlds (2), Mulan Gallery, Singapore |
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Yellow Gate, Gwangju Museum Art, Gwangju |
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Academic Classics of Meticulous Paper Works, Hubei Museum of Art |
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2009 |
Water and Color, Today Art Museum |
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Midway China Tour, Beijng, Tianjing, Xiamen, Shanghai |
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Midway Australian Tour, Wollongong, Sydney |
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Illusory Worlds, Mulan Gallery, Singapore |
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From Nature to Mind, China National Museum of Art, Beijing |
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Scent of Ink, Dialogue Space of Art, Beijing |
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Academic Chinese Painting, Gallery of National Academy of Fine Art, Beijing |
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Miniature & Delicacies, Zhejiang Museum of Art, Hangzhou |
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2008 |
Telltale Paintings, Dialogue Space of Art, Beijing |
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Orient Imagination 2008, Wall Art Museum |
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Chinese Inks, Catherine Schubert Fine Art, Bangkok |
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30 years in Chinese Contemporary Art, National Theatre, Beijing |
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Assembling Under the Five Rings, Art Media Center, Beijing |
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Go Game Beijing, Soemo |
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Red Gate Stars, Red Gate Gallery |
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Contemporary Asian Art, Robischon Gallery, Denver |
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Document of Chinese Contemporary Art, Wall Art Museum, Beijing |
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2007 |
Chinese Contemporary Art at the Deauville Asian Film Festival, Deauville |
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Sovereign Asia Art Prize Finalists, Sovereign Art Exhibition, Hong Kong |
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The Chinese Contemporary Art Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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2006 |
Red Gate Gallery’s 15th Anniversary, Red Gate Gallery |
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New Ink Painting, Zhu Qizhan Art Gallery, Shanghai |
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Oriental Imagination, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing |
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Visual Contemporary, Millennium Art Museum of China, Beijing |
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2005 |
Observing the Senses, Red Gate Gallery |
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Portrait Paintings from Collage Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing |
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Frontline, Plum Blossoms, Hong Kong |
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New Generation, Goedhuis Gallery, New York |
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Les Cent Fleurs, Villa Tamaris Center d’Art, France |
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2004 |
Paris Drouot Montaigne Arts Auction, France |
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Chinese Fine Art, International Art Palace, Beijing |
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Crowds and Voids 11 + 1, Art Scene China Gallery, Shanghai |
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2003 |
Microcosmic and Delicate, NAMOC |
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2nd Chinese Art Exhibition, Xinghai International Exhibition Centre, Dalian |
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Harmony / Unusual, International Art Palace |
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Festival of Youth’s Art, Today Art Gallery |
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2002 |
Chinese Art of the Contemporary, Piltzer, Paris |
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2001 |
Legend of China, Yi Dian Gallery, Shanghai |
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China Contemporary Fine Art, NAMOC |
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Clues to the Future – Red Gate Gallery’s 10th Anniversary |
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Past – Present, Art Center of Silpakorn University, Bangkok |
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2000 |
Between the Lines, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney |
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1999 |
Transparent, Opacity? 14 Artists Contemporairis Chinois, ACACA, Paris |
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China 46 Contemporary Chinese Art (2), Melbourne |
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China 46 Contemporary Chinese Art (1), Taiwan Hoke Art Gallery, Shanghai |
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1998 |
5000 + 10 Chinese Art, Bilbo, Spain |
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Black & White, Chinese Contemporary |
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New Art from the PR of China, Lamont Gallery, Boston |
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Between the Lines, Lee Gallery & Studio Lido Park, Beijing |
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1997 |
Adventures of Three Travel Weary Loafers 3, Arvada Center, Colorado |
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Life on the Fringe, Lee, Gallery & Studio Lido Park, Beijing |
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Contemporary Chinese Art, Chinese Contemporary, London |
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1995 |
Life on the Edge, Three Travel Weary Loafers 2, International Art Palace, Beijing |
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Small Chinese Inks, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore |
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1994 |
Three Travel Weary Loafers 1, Beijing Contemporary Arts |
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1993 |
Three Travel Weary Loafers’ Preliminary Exhibition, Tower Garden, Beijing |
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Chinese Art of the 1990s, Chinese History Museum, Beijing |
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1991 |
Young Artists, CAFA |
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Ink Paintings from Young Artists, Beijing Contemporary Arts
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SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Asian Art Coordinating Council, USA, Denver Art Museum, USA, Geoje Art Center, Korea, Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea, National Museum of Art China, Audi AG, China, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, China, Wall Museum, China, Red Gate Gallery, China, Chinese Contemporary Gallery UK, Mulan Gallery, Singapore, Saint Oriental Gallery, China Meilun Art Museum China, Xiamen Art Museum China, Being 3 Gallery China, Prajna Art Foundation Hong Kong, Ying Media Group China
Private collections:
P.R China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, France, US, Italy, Germany Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, Thailand, Korea, Japan, Singapore
My new work (Leaving the Garden of Dreams) searches the relationship between image and character. The relationship is a combination of inner configuration and interaction - it expresses the fall of the human race into a trance that is the current contemporary dream.
