This interview was conducted in Wang Luyan's Studio, Beijing on 16 March 2009.


Biography:

Wang Luyan (b. 1956, Beijing) is an artist based in Beijing.

Wang participated in the 'Stars' exhibitions in 1979 and 1980. In 1985, he collaborated with ten artists, including Gu Dexin and Tang Pinggang, to organize the ‘Ten Persons' painting exhibition (Chaoyang Theatre, Beijing), which was cancelled by the authorities on its opening day. That same year, Wang, alongside other artists including Zhang Wei, Zhu Jinshi and Ma Kelu, to name a few, organized the ‘Seven Persons' painting exhibition at the apartment of an American journalist in Beijing. In 1988, Wang helped found the New Measurement Group, which featured works in the ‘China/Avant-Garde Exhibition’ held at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing (1989).

 In the early 1990s, the First Work of the New Measurement Group was displayed in the exhibition ‘Exceptional Passage’ (Fukuoka, Japan, 1991). The Second Work of the New Measurement Group was shown at the exhibition ‘China’s New Art, Post-1989’ (Hong Kong Arts Centre, 1993).

Wang has exhibited widely and recently had a solo exhibition entitled ‘The Saw Being Sawn’, held at Arario Gallery in Beijing and at OCAT Shenzhen’s He Xiangning Gallery in 2007.


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王魯炎，1956年出生。中學時代開始學畫。曾先後參加第一、二屆《星星美展》(1979、1980，北京)。
1985年與顧德新、唐平剛等人共組《塗畫展覽會十人畫展》（北京朝陽劇場），但展覽當日被官方所取締。同年又與張偉、朱金石、馬可魯等人，假北京美國記者何模樂的外交公寓組織 《七人畫展》。1988—1995年間，與顧德新、陳少平等人組成「新刻度小組」，1989年參加《中國現代藝術展》（北京中國美術館）等。
 
1991年，其〈新刻度小組作品1〉參加日本福岡舉行的 《非常口：中國前衛藝術展》，1992年〈刻度小組作品2〉參加 《後八九中國新藝術展》（1993，香港藝術中心）。近年王鲁炎的作品見於海內外，如個展 《被鋸的鋸？》（2007，阿拉里奧北京藝術空間、深圳何香凝美術館OCT當代藝術中心）等。