QIU JIE
Qiu Jie, the solitary artist who calls himself ‘the man who comes from other mountains’ grew up in China before moving to Switzerland in 1989. As a child during the Cultural Revolution, he produced propaganda drawings for the local newspaper in a province near Shanghai. His intricate autobiographical work combines the realism of references to both Chinese and Western cultures. Qiu is scarred by the political indoctrination that he underwent in China. However, he uses derision to counterbalance the revolutionary fiction in his art. Qiu Jie’s style could be described as ‘political pop’ as his imagery confronts the history of Chinese society and contemporary Western popular culture.
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