Mountains of Garbage
Chinese artist Yao Lu, photographs mounds of garbage covered in green construction nets and digitally reworks them to re-create traditional Chinese landscape paintings.
Ancient Springtime Fey, 2006.
Chromogenic print, Edition of 8, 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches.
Clear Cliff Shrouded in Floating Clouds, 2007.
Chromogenic print, Edition of 8, 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches.
Viewing the City’s Places of Interest in Springtime, 2007.
Chromogenic print, Edition of 8, 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches.
Mount Zhung in the Mist, 2007.
Chromogenic print, Edition of 8, 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches.
Viewing the Waterfall from the Pine Rocks, 2007.
Chromogenic print, Edition of 8, 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches.
Autumn Mist in the Mountain with Winding Streams, 2007.
Chromogenic print, Edition of 8, 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches.
Dwelling in the Mount Fuchun, 2008.
C-Print and Epson Ultra Giclee.
Green Cliffhanger, 2008.
C-Type print; 70 7/8″ x 32 1/4″.
Yao Lu (b. 1967) is an emerging Chinese artist and teacher at the photography department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. His work has been shown in numerous festivals and collective exhibitions around China, he is newly exhibiting in the west.
The artist photographs mounds of garbage covered in green protective nets which he assembles and reworks by computer to create bucolic images of mountain landscapes shrouded in the mist inspired by traditional Chinese paintings. Lying somewhere between painting and photography, between the past and the present, Yao Lu’s work speaks of the radical mutations affecting nature in China as it is subjected to rampant urbanization and the ecological threats that endanger the environment. A twixt between nature and pollution and the past and present.
In America Yao Lu is represented by: brucesilverstein.com
Images: prixpictet.com, brucesilverstein.com, miamibiennale.org – See more at: https://web.archive.org/web/20160113104733/https://www.inspirationgreen.com/chinese-artist-yao-lu.html#sthash.iU1XuVD2.dpuf
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