Lot Essay
Born in Jiangsu in 1977, Lu Hui graduated from the Nanjing University of the Arts in 2003. Lu lives and works in Beijing and Nanjing. His Vine series takes as its subject the intertwining vines growing over a white wall. Rendered entirely in black and white and in a photorealistic close-up, the vines in Lu Hui’s oeuvre present a microcosmic view of the traditional landscape approximating abstraction.