Since Zhao Fang’s graduation from the Jilin Academy of Fine Arts, China in 1997, his works have met with accolades and popular acclaim, not least for his obvious mastery over his medium, but also for his admirable anti-violence stance. Zhao Fang paints with the vocabulary of a classical renaissance style, achieving incredible depth of form […]

“The Joy of My Reality” is art project curated by Biljana Ciric and Hu Yuanxing and will be featured in media such as newspapers and magazines in an effort to integrate art into the every day people’s life. Thanks to the co-operation of Art World Magazine and Oriental Morning Post, the project will be presented […]

Real life experiences have always been the basis for my work. As such, over the past few years, my work has been closely connected with changes in the urban environment. When I was young, I always felt that my life was intricately linked to urban change. When construction of the Three Gorges Dam began, my […]

The flash of orange scales scintillates in the swirling water as the washing machine churns. Chinese Koi are tossed about like inanimate objects in the unforgiving torrents of the machine. At the end of the cycle, they lie gasping for breath as the machine empties. No reason is given for this low-grade torture, but the […]

It can be said that the modern age is an age of self-discovery, a time to dispose of the feudalistic concept of one’s existence as an element of a community and to seek a modern form of self, which is separate from others. Various experiments were attempted in the process of achieving this. Some pronounced […]

When he adopted the name Black Moon (Hei Yue), back in the heyday of the Yuanmingyuan artist colony, Ji Shengli could hardly have known the intimate connections in English between the verb "to moon" and the performance art that would bring him fame. Yuanmingyuan was one of China’s most fertile art communities, which flourished from […]

In English, “China” means both the country and porcelain. In this way, the famed Chinese export is inherently connected with the transforming country and its culture. Thus, porcelain is so significant a substance that it connects the past history and the present moment of this great country. The material is not a widely used medium […]

We have been informed that we are on the road to happiness, striding from the deceptive fantasies of the past into a feverish frenzy of economic modernization. The effects of so-called globalization and modernization rain down on us like blows to the face as we hurtle from one world toward another, rushing towards the mirage […]

Dinosaurs maraud in downtown Beijing. Scaly lizard bodies sprout Kewpie doll heads, and the sky rains silver with “renminbi”—the people’s money. Chen Qingqing’s stunning new series of light box installation photography bursts with creative collocations of imagery that illuminate her unique and provocative visions of who we are, and what we are well on our […]

Tao Aimin doesn’t put on any airs. She’s a down-home country girl from rural Hunan who is refreshingly unpretentious. At first glance, you wouldn’t guess that beneath the unaffected modesty and simple straightforwardness of her demeanor lies an incisive artistic vision and a staunch commitment to making art that touches the lives of ordinary folks. […]