In the late 70’s and early 80’s non-official artist-run movement, The Stars Group initiated the Post-Cultural Revolution. Mao Lizi was the founding member of that organization which significantly influenced and shaped the Chinese contemporary art scene. The main charac...

Liu Qinghe is considered a contemporary master of ink and wash painting, renowned for pushing the broad potential of this traditional medium to portray today's realities. A member of the painting faculty at the Central Academy of Fine Art, Liu Qinghe has exhibited worl...

Born in Tangshan, Hebei Province in 1963, Yang Shaobin is an internationally recognized painter best known for his painful and often tortured subjects. The artist moved to Beijing in the early 1990s and joined an early avant-garde art group that was based near the Old...

Zhou Chunya was born in 1955 in Chongqing. Trained as a propaganda poster painter in the early 1970s during the Cultural Revolution.

Zhou Chunya’s painting style has been described as a hybrid of Western Modernism, traditional Chinese painting, and the Socialist Reali...

Look from the vision, Guo Kaijun’s oil painting process has no intention of reinforced by more and more simple color symbol. Generally speaking, the color is the soul of oil painting language, painter often through the infinitely delicate change color and cultivating a...

Riusuke Fukahori is known best for his resin-based studies of Japanese goldfish; “I am not a resin artist. I am a goldfish artist,” he has said. Fukahori alternates between pouring resin into a vessel and painting goldfish with acrylic paint, giving the resulting work...

Mao Xuhui, the idealistic leader of the mid-1980s Southwest Art Group, which included renowned artists Zhang Xiaogang and Pan Dehai, has never strayed far from Kunming and Gui Mountain in Yunnan province, the wellspring of his creativity.

Like many of his contemporaries...

Tang Yongxiang has often mentioned in interviews, ‘…even if I am unsure exactly what an object really is, there will always be a certain ‘object’ captured. It is this ‘thing’ that will be facing you. However you may paint it, it will never quite be enough.’ Akin to dis...

Mercanteinfiera is a unique event, the most important appointment of the Business on  European scale, offering the exhibitors the opportunity to propose their own modern antiques, antiques and collectables collections both to the operators and the public at large, incl...

Yang Fudong is an artist who lives and works in Shanghai. He was born in Beijing, 1971 and graduated from the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, 1995. Yang is one of China's best known contemporary artists, having gained a major international reputation for his films and...