Oriental Impressionism

One’s artistic development is directly related to their life experiences believes Qiu Shengxian.

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

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.

Four Seasons

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

Rhythm of the City

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

Art is a Message

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

Psychedelic Lucid Dreaming

Dreams, memory, hallucinations, and fantasy have all been the thread through Zhou Fan’s practice.

Psychedelic Phobia

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

The World of Ren Zhitian

Ren Zhitian's varied artworks confirm he is very much the contemporary artist of today’s China.

Rhythm of the City

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

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