Indirect Conversations

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

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

Mr Shikumen

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

Four Seasons

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

Studio of Basics

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

Hidden Meanings

A dazzle of beauty and many hidden meanings is how artist Zhao Na describes her paintings.

Studio of Basics

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

Meet Bi Rongrong

In her current practice, Bi Rongrong makes drawings, murals and site-specific installations.

Wild Relations and Juicy Love

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

Full Metal Art

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

Introducing Lu Yang

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

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