‘Welcome Welcome! 欢迎欢迎’ Luo Brothers Solo Exhibition Opening Reception 28th September 2014, Yang Gallery • Beijing 798
‘Welcome Welcome! 欢迎欢迎’ Luo Brothers Solo Exhibition 28th September – 18th October 2014
Artist name: Luo Brothers Title: Welcome Welcome!- Celebration Size: 320 x 220 cm Medium: Oil on Canvas Â
Artist name: Luo Brothers Title: Welcome Welcome!- Dragon Size: 32 x 35 x 150 cm Medium: Bronze
Artist name: Luo Brothers Title: Welcome Welcome! Size: 200 x 155 cm Medium: Oil on Canvas
Artist name: Luo Brothers Title: Welcome Welcome!- Sailor Size: 200 x 155 cm (each) Medium: Oil on Canvas Â
Artist name: Luo Brothers Title: Welcome Welcome!- Fortune Fishes Size: 60 x 70 x 90 cm Medium: Fiberglass Â
Artist name: Luo Brothers Title: Welcome Welcome!- Hamburger Size: 116 x 275 cm Medium: Oil on Canvas Â
Artist name: Luo Brothers Title: Welcome Welcome!- Yangtze Delta Size: 200 x 160 cm Medium: Oil on Canvas Â
Artist name: Luo Brothers Title: Welcome Welcome!- Acrobat Baby Size: 42 x 28 x 65 cm Medium: Fiberglass Â
Artist name: Luo Brothers Title: Welcome Welcome!- Red Guards Parade Size: 320 x 220 cm Medium: Oil on Canvas Â
Artist name: Luo Brothers Title: Welcome Welcome!- Chinese Scenery Medium: Oil on Canvas Â
Artist name: Luo Brothers Title: Welcome Welcome! Size: 600 cm (height) Medium Stainless Steel Â
Artist name: Luo Brothers Title: Welcome Welcome!- Great Men Series Size: 120 x 90 cm (each, set of five) Medium: Oil on Canvas Â
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Artist name: Luo Brothers Title: Welcome Welcome! Size: 166 x 400 cm Medium: Oil on Canvas Â
Artist name: Luo Brothers Title: Welcome Welcome!- Prosperity Size: 60 x 70 x 90 cm Medium: Fiberglass Â
Artist name: Luo Brothers Title: Welcome Welcome!- Chinese Scenery Size: 320 x 220 cm Medium: Oil on Canvas Â
Luo Brothers 罗氏兄弟
The three Luo Brothers Luo Weidong, Luo Weibing & Luo Weiguo, are born in Nanning, southern province of Guangxi, China. They graduated from the Guangxi Academy of Art, the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art and the Central Academy of Applied Arts respectively. Famous for creating iconic works from the oriental side of nature, the Luo Brothers' works are in effect a conglomeration of what makes up the modern Chinese society today. The Luo Brothers are known for their ‘Kitsch’ artworks that celebrate global consumer culture of China post culture revolution. The Luo Brothers’ paintings align themselves stylistically with a “pop” sensibility, charged by political fervor and informed by generations of local traditional craft-making techniques. The ‘gaudy’ or ‘kitsch’ art sprung from the pop culture bombardment China suffered in the last decade of the twentieth-century. Stick movement that overtook the post-1989 Chinese art scene. Dubbed ‘gaudy’ or ‘kitsch’ art, the theory sprung from the pop culture bombardment China suffered in the last decade of the twentieth- century. They are stylistically aligned with a contemporary art sensibility, charged by political fervor and informed by generations of local traditional craft-making and art techniques. In the hands of the Luo Brothers, their influence in art ironically construct into both painting and sculpture that acutely caught the psychological and social implications of China’s contemporary art transformation. Collaborating since 1980s, The Luo Brothers seek to subvert and comment on this current trend through computer manipulation of a traditional iconography — the New Year Print or Nianhua. In pre-communist China, the Nianhua was the most popular auspicious poster-form of expressing good luck and happiness, long life and wealth. In rural China, such posters would be seen on front gates, courtyard doors and on many more domestic ritualistic objects and locations. New Year Prints devoted to children were the most popular variety. Luo Brothers imagery and techniques reflect a myriad of stylistic influences ranging from traditional Chinese to Western pop and is exemplary of this new body of work, constructed from contemporary consumer culture, ancient Chinese symbolism and political propaganda. Their playfully cynical vision is a conglomeration of the components of Chinese society today.
In their series 'Welcome Welcome’, a Luo Brothers bouncing baby has held aloft most of the world’s foreign consumer products. When one thinks about it, the same mix can be found in other cultures around the world. However, what’s so different and unique about the Chinese experience is the way it had happened so quickly. In the span of thirty years since the death of Chairman Mao, China had gone from a uniformly colorless society to one that makes our eyes and ears ache with the daily assaults of colors, lights and noise.... The Luo Brothers' works are a successful reflection to this explosion of vitality. The cynic says this is a corruption of tradition, the corruption of things made serious by vile consumerism. They may have a point, there is certainly a lack of spirituality in the sugar and fat enriched cupcake-lands of the Luo Brothers' bouncy babies, but we must not forget that to many this is infinitely preferable compared to the drab and uni-colored 'Red (era)'. These works are fun, their visions very much embrace the 'new' China and they revel in it. Through the Luo Brothers' works, these bouncing babies, symbols of prosperity and success, we are shown the exuberant and merry nature of choice in its truest form. Selected Public Collections Denver Art Museum Fukuoka Art Museum San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain Guy & Myriam Ullens, the Ullens collection The Uli Sigg collection The Kent & Vicki collection
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