Wang Luyan:Diagramming Allegory
One of the most important Chinese conceptual artists working today,Wang Luyan(b.1956)has been actively engaged in the Chinese avant-garde art movement fromits very beginning.He was a member of the Stars Art Group and participated in its ground-breaking exhivitions in 1979and 1980.During the 85New Wave art movement and its afrermath,he helped found the Tactile Sensation Group,the artist through experimental projects.He then withdre from the public eye after the mid-1990s,taking up a life of solitude to engage in artistic rethinking.In abundant sketches and notes,he accumulated great quantities of conceptual resources and materials.