LUO XIAOPING: Time Square Series
Luo Xiaoping is an internationally renowned Chinese artist living in Yixing, Jiangsu Province as well as spending time in Arizona working in ceramics. Time Square Series will showcase twenty-four figures of world political leaders. Given the current turmoil in the world political arena, this timely show will help audiences put a face to the forces that influence our global communities.
“In this series I have sculpted some of the most powerful people in the world today, using only clay and paint. This is a political image spectrum installed on the Square of Time. Some of these figures may never, in reality, stand together, but today I have brought them together on one single stage. Here, I can scoff at them, myself and the world.”
About the Artist
Luo Xiaoping was born in Jiangxi, China in 1960. He attended the Sculpture Department of Jingdezhen Ceramics College in 1983 and became a teacher of the Architecture Faculty of Tongji University, Shanghai after graduation. After five years as a teacher, he resigned from the university and set up Xiaoping Studio in Yixing, and has hosted ceramic artists from around the world, exposing them to the rich pottery traditions of Yixing. Since 1994, Luo Xiaoping has attended dozens of exhibitions at home and abroad and held his solo exhibitions in the United States, New Zealand and China. At the same time he has been awarded many domestic and international prizes for his work.
ASU Art Museum Presentation
Organized by Peter Held, LUO XIAOPING: Time Square Series will be installed in the Arizona State University Art Museum’s Ceramics Research Center location.
Duration
LUO XIAOPING: Time Square Series (October 3, 2003 – February 7, 2004) is open at the Ceramics Research Center: Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 5pm.
Support
The exhibition and related programs are supported in part by CLA and Friends of the ASU Art Museum.
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