Naked Ambition

Ren Hang uses the photographic medium to express individualism and existential concerns.

Painting

Chinese Ink

An Imaginary Enemy

As a child, Yibai Liao grew up in a top-secret missile factory in the Chinese countryside.

Full Metal Art

The son of a cruise missile engineer, Liao Yibai grew up surrounded by Cultural Revolution propaganda.

Photography

Introducing Lu Yang

Wickedly irreverent, Lu Yang’s punchy practice gives everything a cutesy, if gaudy, makeover.

Accumulation of Silence

The concept of pointless accumulation is central to Ye Hongxing’s art.

The Anatomy of Rage

A rising star, Lu Yang participated in the Chinese Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale.

Unbounded Redux

You Si portrays mental comprehension through subtle mediation between shape, form and shade.

Rhythm of the City

Lu Xinjian’s works feature in pretty much every major collection of Chinese Contemporary art.

Indirect Conversations

Ziping Wang’s arresting paintings are punchy and overpowering yet subversive.

Four Seasons

“I think little in my brain but more relate to the colour,” Qu Fengguo tells me.

From Formless To Form

“On a weekend afternoon, I leave my studio to go out for a spin. Everyone seems to be in a hurry."

Indirect Conversations

Ziping Wang’s arresting paintings are punchy and overpowering yet subversive.

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