Luo Er Qi’s works are translated from a visual dictionary; his decoupage works explode in force and fusion. Like magnets, three-dimensional figurative forms are suspended in unity. Long hand-cut figures are mutated into a captured form, like a combustion of anatomy.
The artist’s most recent series of works, ‘Shape of Pictures’ is debuted in this solo exhibition. Drawing from his experiences growing up around dance and music ensembles, Luo Er Qi has developed a visual montage, a layering of memories inspired by films, novels, and theater from around the world, including French, American, and Chinese narratives. Luo Er Qi’s works have also employed advertisements and art magazine cut-outs as part of his decoupage.

The artist wants the viewer to be challenged, and his works are certainly not easy for the eye to comprehend. This is his purpose- to lead the viewer to read and make sense of the beauty and energy of the abstracted forms as they are in transition with one another.
Luo Er Qi takes inspiration from his childhood fascination with Chinese mythology and magical forms, and combines this with his classical artistic education and his training in Lithography. His pieces are at once spontaneous and precise, and convey a sense of energy and motion, evoking a dreamlike quality.

Luo Er Qi describes his artistic process as one that draws him in, almost overwhelming him, with a desire to capture and process an image in his mind until its spirit has become distilled into an interpretation of the object’s form. In this way, Luo Er Qi’s works are a result of the intricacies in detail and form that he sees in real life translated into his papercut forms.

Luo Er Qi studied at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts (1998-2002), and then went on to continue his studies in Besançon, France, a city world renowned for its Arts and Culture (Fine Art School of Besançon, France 2003 – 2005). Luo Er Qi was also trained in Lithography at Tianjin University and is currently a Professor of Fine Arts at Shanghai University. He has also exhibited at Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2007). Luo Er Qi is often commissioned for unique large-scale installations for private collections, institutions and corporations.