Four Seasons

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

Painting

Chinese Ink

Full Metal Art

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

An Imaginary Enemy

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

Photography

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.

Unbounded Redux

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

Naked Ambition

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

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.

Accumulation of Silence

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

Unbounded Redux

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

Psychedelic City Maps

Lu Xinjian was fascinated by the patterns revealed by Google Earth views of cities around the world.

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