Four Seasons

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

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

Wild Relations and Juicy Love

Lin Zhipeng's photographs are most often snapshots, although a cinematographic aura is present in many of them.

Indirect Conversations

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

Psychedelic Phobia

Zhou Fan has come a long way since his breakthrough series of floating jellyfish and mushrooms.

Art is a Message

Zhou Jinhua’s art fuses incompatible views of aerial photography and traditional Chinese painting.

Mr Shikumen

Li Shoubai was brought up in Shanghai and at the age of six started to learn paper cutting.

Indirect Conversations

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

Studio of Basics

Geng Jianyi was in Hangzhou, the city where he first rose to prominence, when he died.

Guys and Dolls

In 1994, artist Wang Xuejun realised his generation was blind to the so-called 'Western worship' trend.

Art is a Message

Zhou Jinhua’s art fuses incompatible views of aerial photography and traditional Chinese painting.

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