LU Dadong
Born in Yantai, Shandong in 1973, LU Dadong graduated from the Department of Chinese Painting in Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art, CAA), and received the doctorate degree under the acclaimed contemporary calligrapher Wang Dongling and Zhu Qingsheng. LU currently teaches at the CAA.

LU Dadong is an experimental calligrapher, performance artist, and a underground rock-band musician. LU stresses the importance of writing with its complex traditions concerning techniques, instruments and materials. He also stresses that writing as an event, that the artistic act as a happening, that spontaneity and intuition are just as important as acquired skills and know-how with regard to craft traditions. His calligraphic work always refers to various cultural contexts, including Shamanism, Taoism and Japanese Zen painting.

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