Luo Er Qi’s works are translated from a visual dictionary; this solo exhibition presents his new decoupage works exploding in force and fusion. Like magnets, three-dimensional figurative forms are suspended in unity. Long hand-cut figures are mutated into a captured form, like a combustion of anatomy.

The artist wants the viewer to be challenged, and his works are certainly not easy for the eye to comprehend. This is his purpose- to force the viewer to read and make sense of the beauty and energy of the abstracted forms as they are in transition with one another.

Luo Er Qi was born in the 80s, a child of the first instant information era in China; of MTV, the first Nintendos, Japanese cartoons - Mangas, and of a new Hollywood for young Chinese. The instant information era and first awakening of the East to Western culture craze was a determining factor in his creative process. His father worked designing sets for the cinema and theatre in Shanghai; Luo Er Qi grew up in a totally visual environment that to him was completely contrived and glossy. His artistic mission, therefore, is to carve out the soul of a totally ‘artificial’ visual world.