This interview was conducted at Lu Peng's home in Chengdu on 1 March 2010. For more information, please visit the Materials of the Future website.


Biography:

Lu Peng (b. 1956, Chongqing) is an art historian and curator, and currently lives and works in Chengdu.

Lu graduated from the Political Education Department at Sichuan Normal University in 1982. He then became an editor for the magazine Theatre and Film (Xiju yu dianying), where he worked for three years. In the 1980s, Lu focused his research on Western art history and helped put several publications together, including Correspondences of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin (1986), Wassily Kandinsky’s The Spirit in Art (1986) and Kenneth Clark’s Landscape into Art (1988).

From 1986 to 1991, Lu was the deputy secretary-general of the Sichuan Dramatists Association and coordinated the oil painting exhibition ‘1988 Southwest Art’ (1988). From 1990 to 1993, Lu became the executive editor of Art and Market (Yishu shichang) magazine. In 1992, he was one of the main organizers of the first Guangzhou Biennial.

Lu has produced a number of books on contemporary Chinese art. In 1992, he published A History of Modern Art in China, 1979–1989 (written with Yi Dan), followed in 2000 by A History of Contemporary Art in China, 1990–1999. Other notable publications are Art Operation (Yishu caozuo) (1994), and more recently, A History of Art in Twentieth-Century China (2009).


簡歷︰

呂澎,1956年出生於重慶。藝術史學者及策展人,居於成都。
 
1977—1982年在四川師範學院政治教育系讀書。1982—1985年任《戲劇與電影》雜誌社編輯。早期研究西方藝術史,譯作有:《塞尚、凡•高、高更書信選》(成都:四川美術出版社,1986)、《論藝術的精神》(The Spirit in Art by W. Kandinsky,成都:四川美術出版社,1986)、《風景進入藝術》(Landscape into Art by K. Clark,成都:四川美術出版社,1988)等。
 
1986—1991年任四川戲劇家協會副秘書長,在1988年促成及統籌了在成都舉行的《西南藝術展》。1990—1993年任《藝術•市場》雜誌執行主編。1992年為《廣州雙年展》藝術主持。著作包括:《中國現代藝術史:1979—1989》(與易丹合著,長沙:湖南美術出版社,1992)、《藝術操作》(成都:成都出版社,1994)、《中國當代藝術史:1990—1999》(長沙:湖南美術出版社,2000)、《20世紀中國藝術史》(北京:北京大學出版社,2009)。

Context

In 2006, Asia Art Archive began a focused archiving project called 'Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990'. This project aimed at developing a comprehensive collection of primary research materials including books, periodicals, newspapers, exhibition brochures, invitations, video recordings, correspondence, and other relevant documents. 

As part of this project, AAA digitised more than 80,000 items of material from personal archives to include artists Mao Xuhui, Wu Shanzhuan, Zhang Xiaogang, and Zhang Peili; curators and critics Fei Dawei, Lu Peng, and Zheng Shengtian; as well as the archives of Tokyo Art Gallery. As part of the research process over 75 in-depth interviews with key artists, curators, and critics were conducted. From a portion of these interviews, AAA created a documentary film about experimental art in South China (Guangzhou) in the 1980s entitled From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Contemporary Cantonese Art in the 1980s.

AAA’s 1980s archiving project culminated with the launch of a comprehensive website portal called www.china1980s.org in September 2010.

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Interview: Lv Peng (Chinese subtitles), 訪問:呂澎