Lu Pingyuan’s new series of works, “Look! I’m Picasso!”, is inspired by the first feature-length computer-animated film produced by Pixar in 1995, “Toy Story”. A scene in the film presents the toy Mr. Potato Head with his eyes, nose and mouth on the side claiming: “Look! I’m Picasso”. The artist conceived a series of cubist paintings and sculptures in the style of Picasso and incorporated elements inspired from the facial props of Mr. Potato. Always standing on the border between fiction and reality, the works created by Lu manifest a unique status and position that break with conventions. This combination between these two forms alludes to a certain merging between social classes, popular culture and elitist culture.
