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林境之华——吕美个展

The Blooming Realm——Aurelia Lu Solo Exhibition

出品Curator

荣祥广场Pinnacle Plaza

策展Curator

MIX ART LAB

展览支持Support

koko blommor、GAW

展览地点Venue

北京市顺义区空港街道馨园一路2号院荣祥广场北广场318

318,North Square , Pinnacle Plaza, Yard 2, Xinyuan 1st Road, Konggang Street, Shunyi District, Beijing City

展览现场图片致谢：MIX ART LAB

林境之华

在当代艺术的全球语境中，如何以自身文化的思想资源重建艺术语言体系，一直是艺术家需要持续面对的核心议题。常年往返中美两国的艺术家Aurelia Lu（吕美）的本次个展《林境之华》就是针对这个议题的自我回应。展览通过展出Aurelia Lu近年创作的“天、地、人”三大系列作品，从符号、形态与哲学等方向探讨艺术在跨文化语境中的生成与更新。

“林境之华”既是展览主题，也是艺术家创作思想的象征性表达。“林”象征着生命的生发与自然秩序；“境”指向感知与精神的场域；“之华”则是能量显现、精神绽放的象征。基于东西方文化冲撞的吕美以此为结构隐喻，将其“天、地、人”系列作品贯通为一个由形入神、由物达道的创作语境。

Aurelia Lu的“天”系列以圆、三角、曲线等符号，通过传统水墨同材质的渗透与综合材料相叠合，营造出一种流动与秩序并存的空间张力。其作品的抽象不同于西方形式自律的理性，而是根植于其东方传统“气韵生动”的观念，遂使其作品成为Aurelia Lu观念与感知的共融场域。而在她的“地”系列作品中，艺术家聚焦形质与文明的积淀。金字塔、金山、竹简等意象在她的作品中转译为文化记忆的象征。通过含蓄的方式将图形意向转化为精神能量的象征，继而成为其文化记忆与形式语言的交汇。她的“人”系列则在“天”与“地”之间建立精神中介，通过柔化的色层与隐约的形体暗示“灵”的存在方式，用佛像残影、符号碎片与龙凤等意象的融入，使“人”系列作品成为她创作语义的汇聚点。

Aurelia Lu的创作整体上呈现出一种基于其常年往返中美两地受东西方文化冲击下的特殊背景的跨文化艺术方法——以东方哲思为根基，以西方现代主义的结构理性与材料实验为形式，在抽象结构中追寻精神秩序的可见化，通过复合媒介的层积结构，利用图像符号在显与隐、物质与精神之间转换，使观者的凝视成为意义生成的过程。

正如梅洛-庞蒂所言：“可见之物并非对象，而是世界在我们之中的显现。” ，Aurelia Lu的作品是这种显现的视觉形态——在“林境”中生发，在“之华”中绽放，构成一个从物质到精神、从形式到意识的完整循环。由此成为一个关于“艺术如何生成”的思想模型，以视觉方式重述“天、地、人”三才共生的当代表达。

艺术家吕美

展览现场开幕嘉宾

The Blooming Realm

In the global context of contemporary art, how to reconstruct an artistic language system using the intellectual resources of one’s own culture has always been a core issue that artists must continuously confront. The solo exhibition of “The Blooming Realm” by Artist Aurelia Lu, who frequently travels between China and the United States, serves as her personal response to this question. Three major series of works: Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, created by Aurelia Lu in recent years, represent this. The exhibition explores the formation and renewal of art in a cross-cultural context from the perspectives of symbolism, form, and philosophy.

The Blooming Realm is both the title of the exhibition and a symbolic expression of the artist’s creative philosophy. The “Realm” symbolises the growth of life, the order of nature, and the field of perception and spirit. The“Blooming” represents the manifestation of energy and the blossoming of the spirit. Together, these three elements form an internal cyclical system that moves from generation to manifestation, from form to spirit, subtly echoing the cosmology articulated in the《 I Ching》: “The great virtue of heaven and earth is giving life.” Using this structure as a metaphor, the exhibition presents Aurelia's "Heaven", "Earth", and "Humanity" series.

Aurelia’s "Heaven" series employs symbols such as circles, triangles, and curves, combining the permeating qualities of traditional ink wash with layered mixed media to create a spatial tension where fluidity and order coexist. The abstraction in her works differs from the rational self-discipline of Western forms, as it is rooted in the Eastern traditional concept of “rhythmic vitality” (qiyun shengdong). This makes her work a fusion of her conceptual thinking and sensory perception. In her Earth series, the artist focuses on the accumulation of form and civilisation. Imagery such as pyramids, golden mountains, and bamboo slips is translated into symbols of cultural memory. Through subtle means, graphic intentions are transformed into symbols of spiritual energy, becoming the intersection of her cultural memory and formal language. Her Humanity series establishes a spiritual intermediary between Heaven and Earth. Through softened colour layers and faintly suggested forms, it hints at the existence of the “soul.” By incorporating imagery such as the lingering shadows of Buddha statues, fragmented symbols, and dragons and phoenixes, the Humanity series becomes the converging point of her creative semantics.

Overall, Aurelia’s work demonstrates a cross-cultural artistic approach grounded in her unique experience of the collision between Eastern and Western cultures. Rooted in Eastern philosophical thought and shaped by the structural rationality and material experimentation of Western modernism, she seeks to make spiritual order visible within abstract structures. Through the layered accumulation of composite media and the transformation of visual symbols between the manifest and the hidden, the material and the spiritual, she turns the viewer’s gaze into a process of meaning generation.

As Maurice Merleau-Ponty remarked, “The visible is not an object, but the manifestation of the world within us.” Aurelia’s works are a visual form of this manifestation—generated within the “wooded realm” and blossoming in its “radiance,” forming a complete cycle from material to spirit, from form to consciousness. Thus, they become a conceptual model about “how art is generated,” visually rearticulating a contemporary expression of the symbiotic triad of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity.

关于艺术家

Aurelia Lu（吕美）

旅美艺术家，现创作生活于纽约和北京。曾就读于中央工艺美院环境艺术系，中央美院蒋采萍工笔重彩画研究班，国际书象学社，纽约艺术学生联盟。北美清华美院校友会副会长，海外美术家协会会员，北京工笔重彩画会会员。吕美曾在中国，美国，欧洲各地举办个展群展等，参加巴黎，迈阿密和瑞士巴塞尔等地博览会，作品被中外美术馆及私人收藏。吕美的作品关注“自然”，“宇宙”，“生命”，以及在东西方文化影响下的内心冲突，身份认知和心灵对话。所以对“自然”，“心性”，“心灵”的表达是她作品所关注的方向，希望通过艺术的方式来疗愈人类的情感和情绪。吕美的创作的理念和思考主要来自于东方的哲学观与智慧，比如“阴阳”，“虚实”，“空无”，“天圆地方” ，“大象无形”，“大道至简”，“道”是最高的抽象，回到物体结构本身，寻找本质，回到自我，极简，纯色，神秘，光，塔，精神性，是对她作品的解读。作品的形式包括抽象水墨，综合材料和装置。吕美的作品是她的心路历程和心性流露，是她对生命，虚无及终极问题的纯粹表达。

Chinese American artist, Aurelia Lu studied and graduated from The Central Academy of Art and Design, Beijing, The International ShuXiang Society, Beijing, and The Art Student League of New York. She currently lives and works between New York City and Beijing. Lu Mei's artworks have been exhibited and collected by Museums, galleries, and private collectors throughout the US, China, and Europe. Aurelia Lu’s artworks are influenced by her intensive study of both Oriental and Western culture, and her personal life experience. Her art form includes contemporary inks, mixed media, and installations. Her artworks depict traces of her heart. It’s the image of her soul and spiritual pursuit of art. According to Aurelia Lu: “Life is a Journey to return home.”

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99 International Museum Beijing, Being3 Gallery Beijing, Crete Contemporary Art Museum Greece， China Association of collectors, Springfield Transportation Chicago, Law Firm NY, Finance Industry NY, Douglas Elliman NY, Kelly Williams’ NY, We’do Coffee Beijing, Xi Space Beijing， ForME Art Space Beijing， YiYou Cultural Gallery Beijing， Cohim Gallery Beijing， International Shuxiang Society, Cloud Art Space Beijing. Finance Investment Company Beijing. And some private collectors from New York, Chicago, China, Spain, Greece, Paris, and London.