Chambers Fine Art is pleased to present recent works by Fu Xiaotong, Guo Hongwei, Pixy Liao, Wu Jian'an and Yan Shanchun. Widely different in background and approach, the five artists are representative of the stylistic diversity of contemporary Chinese art today.
Yan Shanchun is the senior artist in the group and the most indebted to the thematic content of traditional Chinese art, although his paintings hover on the edge of abstraction. In contrast, Guo Hongwei's watercolours and oil paintings depict physical objects from both the natural as well as man-made world.
Wu Jian'an is represented by his latest virtuosic collage series, 500 Brushstrokes, in which hundreds of overlapping ink and watercolour brushstrokes are individually cut out and arranged to create a vibrant, kinetic composition. Fu Xiaotong's process is no less impressive: she uses a needle to perforate sheets of hand-made xuan paper until landscape images emerge from her carefully orchestrated excavation of the surface of the paper.
Born in Shanghai, China, Pixy Liao is best known for her photography series 'Experimental Relationship', in which Liao creates various intimate, playful, and witty tableaux that often place her in a position of power over her husband Moro, in a subtle reversal of gender roles.
