"Red, Smooth and Luminescent" - the three defining aesthetic characteristics of the Cultural Revolution are alive in a new cultural context as Chinese contemporary artists transform them into powerful new expressions of China's heated development and the drastic changes in the nation's spirituality. "Red, Smooth and Luminescent" are no longer the aesthetics of revolutionary romanticism, but the artists' spontaneous response, through choice of color, to the strange and miraculous happenings in contemporary China.
The Red, Smooth and Luminescent- Contemporary Expression Catalog present artworks of 11Chinese contemporary artists:
Chang Xugong • Cheng Wenlin • Feng Mengbo • Feng Zhengjie • Liu Dahong • Qi Zhilong • Wang Guangyi • Wang Jianwei • Wei Guangqing • Xu Yihui • Yue Minjun