EXHIBITED:
Hung Tung Lu's Solo Exhibition, Art Seasons, Beijing, August 6 – September 4, 2006
Hung Tung Lu's Solo Exhibition, Art Seasons, Singapore, October, 2006

Hung Tung-lu is a Taiwanese avant-garde artist with an international perspective. After studying successively at Department of Fine Arts, Chinese Culture University and Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, National Tainan College of Art, Hung now lives in Shanghai in his pursuit of an artistic career. He has participated in many international contemporary art exhibitions, such as the 48th Venice Biennial in 1999, 31es Recontres internationales de la Photographie, Arles in 2000, Taipei Biennial in 2000, Arco in 2001 and Shanghai Biennial in 2004. One of the younger generations of Taiwanese artists, Hung employs images of fictional characters from computer games, such as Sailor Moon, Chun Li and Evangelion, as well as cartoon characters most people were familiar with in their childhood, such as Ultraman and Mazinger Z. He transports them onto magnificently fantastic historical contexts, so that toy figurines from the modern system of consumption come to usurp the position of religious deities. Although Hung completed his primary artistic training in early 1990s, he still prefers to mock historical and political symbols highly relevant to the contemporary system as his means of artistic intervention.

Continuous developments in computer and Internet technology have enabled the technology of virtual imaging to advance by leaps and bounds. This virtual technology, which incorporates artistic techniques in the formation of a new media, is referred to as virtual reality. What’s even more utterly amazing and surprising is that this new form of media art has recently become an incubator for new gods and new icons that offering psychological and spiritual consolation to many of the modern population. Virtual reality has indeed become a veritable religion.