Exhibition :
"Another place", personal exhibition of Luo Quanmu 罗荃木

Opening hours :
Monday - Saturday, 11am - 7 pm


Opening :
Tuesday 3rd June, 6 pm - 8 pm
In the presence of the artist


ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in 1965 in Nantong, Luo Quanmu lives and works in Shanghai and Nanjing.
Luo Quanmu is one of the most captivating figures in contemporary Chinese painting. Before entering artists’ studios, he knew the world of factory workshops. He left high school at the age of fifteen and became a worker in a textile factory. For five years, he immersed himself in the harsh reality of repetitive, alienating labor, dictated by the grueling rhythm of rotating shifts. Yet, he remained fascinated by the vastness of these industrial spaces and the way bodies and machines inhabit them. Passionate about painting and drawing since childhood, he never gave up on his dream of becoming an artist — to him, the only way to alter the course of his destiny and achieve freedom.
Alongside his factory work, he prepared for another future. In 1986, he was admitted to university and transitioned from a worker’s life to that of a student. Grappling with many questions about art, he went through a period of great inner turmoil before finding his path.

"Since the early 2000s, Luo Quanmu has shaped one of the most fascinating bodies of pictorial work of his generation, working primarily in oil painting. Drawing on prosaic subjects — often centered on manual labor and factory life — he creates enigmatic works that radiate an atmosphere of almost mystical stillness. His figures appear frozen even in the midst of activity. They seem alone even when together. Motion becomes stillness, closeness becomes distance.
This sense of unreality that pervades even the most ordinary scenes is heightened by his color palette and the use of striking monochromes in blue or yellow. Transfiguring the everyday into a ritual of solemn and majestic beauty, Luo Quanmu begins with reality in order to transcend it. Beyond appearances, even the most banal situations take on a spiritual and timeless dimension, as if the artist were capturing the hidden soul of people and places.
Meticulously constructed and composed of countless brushstrokes, Luo Quanmu’s paintings lead us to the threshold of life’s mystery".

Myriam Kryger, curator of the exhibition