Chinese Ink

Mr Shikumen

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

Painting

Chinese Ink

Pop Art

An Imaginary Enemy

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

Full Metal Art

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

Photography

Photography

Wild Relations and Juicy Love

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

Studio of Basics

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

Naked Ambition

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

Four Seasons

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

Accumulation of Silence

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

An Imaginary Enemy

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

Endless Form

During Design Shanghai in April 2018, Zhang Zhoujie unveiled his long-awaited design brand Endless Form.
Mixed Media

Introducing Lu Yang

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

Rhythm of the City

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

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