Luo Mingjun

1963       Born in Sichuan province, grow up in Hunan province, China

1983       Graduated from Fine Arts Studies, Hunan Normal University, China

1983-87  Assistant Lecturer, Fine Arts Faculty, Hunan Normal University

Luo Mingjun lives and works in Switzerland and China.

The experience of living in Switzerland has enabled Luo Mingjun to continuously explore memory bonds under different cultural backgrounds. In her mottled and faded group photos, the white border seems to have been chipped away by time, churning infinite imagination. This is not so much an outline of the real “self” and the epoch as an extension of “homeland” that is closely associated with modern life. The face of alumni may be indistinguishable, but the emotional connections are clearly there. Meanwhile, it is inevitably associated with earlier life experiences of childhood and youth. Luo Mingjun’s works are delicate and simple. They are the carrier of her personal memory and a retrospective redepiction of the lost era. Luo Mingjun tried to find out the artistic creation of memory for her hometown. All kinds of containers and utensils often appear in her pictures, which brews for a nostalgic emotion. Her works are the recognition of memory at the moment when tradition and memory are chipping away, and also a way to reconstruct traditional memory and self-memory. Memory is not only a negative homesickness gesture, but also a historical depth, asking questions about the past and exploring the future.

ARTWORKS

I Walk Beside You No. 14

Oil on canvas
55 x 45 cm
2019

I Walk Beside You No. 13

Oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
2019

I Walk Beside You No. 6

Oil on Canvas
150x110cm
2018

Stroll 1+2

Charcoal on paper
75x56cm x2
2019

I saw you

Charcoal, ink on paper
30 x 42 cm
2012/2017

The Wind Blows

Mixed media
20 x 30 cm
2016

City

Oil on canvas
110 x 150 cm
2010

Here and Now

Oil on canvas
180 x 280 cm
2016

Story of Apple

Charcoal on paper
70 x 50 cm
2017

Bike II

Oil on canvas
110 x 150 cm
2013

Red Dust 3

Acrylic on canvas
45 x 55 cm x 2
2023

I walk Beside You 21

Oil on canvas
110 x 90 cm
2022-2023

Drifting Through Eternity

Acrylic on canvas
110 x 90 cm
2023

Other 6

Charcoal on paper
150 x 114 cm
2023

Other 2

Charcoal on paper
150 x 114 cm
2023

Bank

Oil on canvas
130 x 200 cm
2021-2022

The Paper Drifts in Space 2023

Charcoal on paper
150 x 114 cm
2023

Breeze

Oil on canvas
110 x 90 cm
2022

Stroll 3

Pencil on paper
30 x 42 cm
2022

Other 5

Charcoal on paper
150 x 114 cm
2023

The Paper Drifts in Space 2022

Oil on canvas
110 x 160 cm
2022

Other 4

Charcoal on paper
150 x 114 cm
2023

Other 3

Charcoal on paper
150 x 114 cm
2023

Zodiac Year

Acrylic on canvas
22 x 18 cm
2023

Red Dust 1

Acrylic on canvas
80 x 70 cm
2023

Over the Mountain

Oil on canvas
130 x 200 cm
2021

发光体 Illuminant

炭笔素描
Charcoal Sketch
70 x 50 cm
2017

发光体 Illuminant

炭笔素描
Charcoal Sketch
70 x 50 cm
2017

逗号 Comma

纸上铅笔与钢笔
Pencil and pen on paper
70 x 50 cm
2017

江湖 Itinerant

纸上炭笔
Charcoal on paper
70 x 50 cm
2017

改变 Change

2017
纸上素描与丙烯
Skech and acrylic on paper
30 x 42 cm

看不见的桃源2 Utopian Invisible 2

纸上水彩
Watercolor on paper
32 x 24 cm
2017

山水之间 A Shanshui World

布面油画
Oil on canvas
150 x 190 cm
2016-2017

即将忘却4 The Verge of Oblivion 4

纸上铅笔
Pencil on paper
30 x 42 cm
2015

即将忘却5 The Verge of Oblivion 5

纸上铅笔
Pencil on paper
30 x 42 cm
2015

即将忘却6 The Verge of Oblivion 6

纸上铅笔
Pencil on paper
30 x 42 cm
2015

叠印 Traces

布面油画
Oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm
2014

黄旗 Yellow Flag

布面油画
Oil on canvas
45 x 55 cm
2012/2017

曾经有一天 Once Upon a Time

布面油画
Oil on canvas
190 x 240 cm
2012

过客 Passengers

布面油画
Oil on canvas
190 x 240 cm
2012

Exhibitions

Publications

Selected Articles

I walk beside you

by Felicity Lunn

En scène

I walk beside you

The Path of Time, but is never far away

by Feng Boyi

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