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Conscientious Photography Yao Lu: New Landscapes

May 15, 2010 10:30 PM

Yao Lu: Sustainability Visualized

Yao Lu has created a thoughtful and timely series inspired by traditional Chinese paintings entitled New Landscapes in which mounds of garbage covered in green protective nets are assembled and reworked by a computer to create images of rural mountain landscapes shrouded in the mist.

Lying somewhere between painting and photography, between the past and the present, Yao Lu's work speaks of the radical mutations affecting nature in China as is it subjected to rampant urbanization and the ecological threats that endanger the environment.

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Seascape with rocky shoreline and misty waves.

Mountain and Straw Houses in the Summer, 2008. © Yao Lu/Courtesy of Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City

Ice-covered landscape with rocky formations and cloudy sky.

Birds and Snow in the Cold Dusk, 2008. © Yao Lu/Courtesy of Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City

A serene landscape featuring misty mountains and calm waters.

View of Autumn Mountains in the Distance, 2008. © Yao Lu/Courtesy of Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City

Traditional landscape painting featuring misty mountains and a solitary tree.

Viewing the Waterfall from the Pine Rocks, 2007. © Yao Lu/Courtesy of Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City

Traditional landscape painting depicting mountains and water with a misty atmosphere.

welling in the Mount Fuchun, 2008. © Yao Lu/Courtesy of Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City

Serene landscape painting with mountains and mist over water.

Early Spring on Lake Dong Ting, 2008. © Yao Lu/Courtesy of Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City

Mountain and Straw Houses in the Summer, 2008. © Yao Lu/Courtesy of Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City

Birds and Snow in the Cold Dusk, 2008. © Yao Lu/Courtesy of Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City

View of Autumn Mountains in the Distance, 2008. © Yao Lu/Courtesy of Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City

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