LU ZHENGYUAN, (Dalian, China, 1982)."Mental patiens", 2006.Bronze.Signed.Dimensions: Variable, installation. 44 x 67.5 x 67.5 x 34.5 cm (bed), 28.5 x 18 x 24 cm (crouching figure), 60 x 23 x 23 x 23 cm (taller figure).Lu Zhengyuan was born in Dalian, China, in 1982, and was awarded the Fine Arts Medal by the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where he is currently a professor. A multidisciplinary artist whose work spans a variety of media and subjects, Lu's work demonstrates an interest in the dichotomies and similarities between fake and real, a space between which he carefully navigates with his characteristic humour.Solo exhibitions include Crossing The Ocean - Symbiosis in Colour, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panama City, Panama; Galería Nacional, San José, Costa Rica (2016); Oxymoron, Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan (2015); Asian Art: Lu Zhengyuan, Long Museum, Shanghai, China (2014); Meet: Lu Zhengyuan, Phoenix Art Center, Beijing, China (2014); Superfluous Thing No.2, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2013); Reflection: Lu Zhengyuan, White Box Museum of Art, Beijing, China (2010); 84 Days, 84 Works of Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2010); and Lu Zhengyuan: Solo Exhibition, Galleria Primo Marella, Milan, Italy (2010).His work has been exhibited in group exhibitions including On the Road, Hubei Art Museum, Hubei Sheng, China (2017); China's First Urban Public Art Exhibition, Museum of Art Today, Beijing, China (2017); Encounter: Young French & Chinese Art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China (2017); BRIC-à-brac: The Jumble of Growth, Today Art Museum, Chaoyang District, Beijing (2017); The Exhibition of Annual of the Contemporary Art of China 2014, Beijing Minsheng Museum, China (2016); Guns and Roses, Kunstraum, Potsdam c/o Waschhaus, Germany (2016); Observer - Creator, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China (2015); TA Era, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China (2015); Soft Abstraction as Constellation, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2014).