Lu Bin 陆斌

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Lu Bin is a ceramics sculptor. Born in 1961, Lu lives and works in Nanjing, where he also serves as the Director of the ceramics studio at the Nanjing Art Institute.

Contents 1 Date & Place of Birth 2 Education & Development 3 Art 4 Exhibitions 5 Gallery Affiliation(s) 6 References

Date & Place of Birth

Lu Bin was born in 1961 in Beijing.

Education & Development

In 1988, he graduated from the Nanjing Art Institute. In 1994 he set up his first ceramic studio in Shenzhen, and in 1998 went on to become Director of the ceramic studio at Shenzhen Sculpture Academy.

Art

Lu Bin graduated from the Ceramics Department of Nanjing College of Art in 1988. Like most young artists in the 8os, he was also influenced greatly by western modern formalism. The key words of the ceramics circle during this period were "rebellion" and "language." The focus then was on rebelling against the confinement of traditional ceramic forms and the consequent categorization of ceramics as a branch of industrial art. They did this by creating up a ceramics language that is expressive, individual, creative and different.^[1]

One of the differences between contemporary culture and modern culture lies in its relative access to masses of people. Modern culture is no longer made solely for the appreciation of elites; neither is it any longer just an experimental field for a few intellectuals. It has begun to face the life experience of the public and returned from the pure and beautiful altar to reality. Lu Bin revives this spirit of ceramics with his contemporary ceramics. "The Matrix," "Chinese Characters," and "Pills" in his Type Series, or "Big Gloves" and "Fish" in his Urban Series are all representative of the most common things in our daily lives. Lu's work presents a new twist on the relationship between life and art. If we say that traditional ceramics expresses its relationship with life through practicality, and the ceramics of modernism rejects this kind of relationship altogether by emphasizing pure form, then Lu Bin's contemporary ceramics offers us a completely new outlook altogether. It is certainly not a renaissance on traditional practicality, but takes on the spirit of daily life through the realization of common themes.^[1]

Recently, Lu Bin has made a new series of work called "Fossils ~ooo". These works are his interpretation of a fictional history. Using modern daily living objects and making them into fossils, these time-warped objects reflect his views on contemporary issues, and examine present history as a whole.^[1]

Exhibitions

For Lu Bin's exhibition history, click here.

Gallery Affiliation(s)

Lu Bin is represented by Sculpturesite Gallery.

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} http://www.lubinceramic.com/en/Review.htm