City DNA by Lu Xinjian

Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Los Angeles… What are the genes of these cities?

2012-06-13

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设计公司: :; Lu Xinjian
类型: :; Art
标签: :; Xinjian Lu
分类: :; Painting

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研究人员对比人类和黑猩猩的基因组后发现，两者之间的相似度达到98．8％，其基因组的大部分可排序区域几乎没有区别。也就是说，人类和大猩猩的基因差别只有1.2%。而通过艺术家陆新建的作品“City DNA”来对比部分舆论口中的“千城一面”的城市，会发现城市间的基因差异更大，“千城一面”或许是浮光掠影的说法。这些基因差异由城市的肌理决定。艺术家将其提炼出来，再进行优美的转化，最后成就这些令人难以忘怀的城市基因图谱。肌理当然比建筑更能决定城市或者区域的魅力。（在建筑师刘家琨谈成都玉林小区的肌理—-道路系统和组团规模也可窥见一二。）城市也是世界上最复杂的系统之一。

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Beijing

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Beijing CBD

Coming from a design background and influenced by his own design practice,artist Lu Xinjian brings his particular understanding of the relationshipsamong lines, shapes and colors into his artistic practice. It’s only naturalwhen he shifted his practice into the artistic realm, that these elementsremain the most prominent in his artistic works. Almost by accident, GoogleEarth became Lu’s source of inspiration, as well as his crucial artisticinstrument in the “City DNA” series; in this series of works, he traces thebird’s eye view landscapes of parts of different cities from around the worldand abstracts them into simple patterns and lines. He also chooses colorpatterns that fits each city, representing its culture, spirit or his personalimpression of the cities he has visited. Lu started the series when he wasliving abroad; the very first piece of the “City DNA” series is “Groningen”(2009), where Lu lived during his graduate school years in The Netherlands. Inthis particular work, Lu traced a bird’s eye view photo he took of Groningenand transformed it into a painting, where the lines and shapes are much moresimple and loosely arranged than the works he has since developed using GoogleEarth. After the first experiment, under the encouragement of his thenprofessor, Lu gradually took on more challenging cities like Beijing, Pairs,New York, and London with more complexity in their cityscapes. Lu’s worksseaminglessly combine simplicity and complexity, abstraction and concept. Fromeach painting, the viewers can grasp the visual characteristics of a certaincity at a glance, yet the content itself is so complex since the cityscapeembodies the historical, economic and political history of that particular cityto this day. Visually, the abstract presentation may seem randomly composed bylines, shapes and colors, yet the concept behind the works is rich andconcrete.

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Shanghai

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Lu Xinjian was born in Jiangsu Province in1977. In 2000, he graduated from Graphic Design department of Nanjing Arts Institute. From year 2004 to 2005, he studied at IM Postgraduate Department of Design Academy Eihndhoven. Later, he earned his MFA in Interactive Media and Environment Department of Frank Mohr Institute in Netherlands in 2006. Lu now lives and works in Shanghai.

ABOUT F2 GALLERY

F2 Gallery is located in the cutting-edge Caochangdi area of Beijing adjacent to the world-renowned 798 Art District. The gallery is set in an idyllic courtyard and distinguishes itself by its lush surroundings, reflecting the very private relationship that the owners have with their clients and the artists whose work they represent and collect.

F2 Gallery aims to contribute to the cross-cultural exchange of blue chip and cutting edge contemporary art, in all its forms, between China and the West. Furthermore, F2 Gallery provides specialist consultancy services to artists, private clients, corporations, public institutions and museums. Visit F2 Gallery online at www.f2gallery.com

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Chongqing

受到他自身平面设计的背景和他之前设计工作的影响，艺术家陆新建把他对线条、形状与色彩中独到的见解带到了他的艺术创作之中。当他将其的创作重心转入纯艺术领域时，自然而然地这些元素依旧在他的艺术作品中占据了重要的位置。

近乎于偶然地，谷歌地球成为了陆新建的灵感之源，同时也成为了他“城市基因”系列创作的重要艺术手段与工具。在此系列作品中，他从全世界不同城市的鸟瞰城市图景中描画出各个城市的景观，再将他们抽象成为简单的图形及线条。同时，在色彩组合的选择上，他也选取了能够代表它们自身文化、精神内涵或者是能反映他本人对他所造访过城市印象的颜色。陆新建开始创作这一系列作品还是在他旅居海外期间，“城市基因”系列的第一张作品是“Groningen”，这是他当时在荷兰攻读硕士学位期间所居住过的城市。在此作品中，陆新建利用了一张他当时拍摄的俯视Groningen城市的照片，之后他将照片中的线条抽取出来创作出了这幅油画，此作品中的线条与形状的布局较之他后期利用谷歌地球发展出的作品要简单且松散得多。在这第一次的尝试之后，在他当时教授的鼓励下，陆新建逐渐开始创作规模更加庞大且布局更为复杂的城市，如北京、巴黎、纽约、伦敦等国际大都市。

陆新建的作品完美结合了简单与繁复，抽象与观念这些元素与概念。在每一幅画作中，观者可以在一瞥中抓住某个特定城市的视觉特征，然而画面内容本身又是如此之复杂，因为任何一个城市的布局与景观都包罗了这个城市历史、经济以及政治、文化自古至今所涵盖的全部内容。在视觉上，作品抽象的表现形式似乎近于由线、形、色随机所构成，然而在作品背后的观念上则是丰富、明确而坚实的。

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