• 2025 ART021 BEIJING
  • 2025｜05.22 - 05.25
  • VIP Preview｜05.22 - 05.23
  • Public Day｜05.24 - 05.25
  • Tank 79 & The First Workshop Beijing 798．751 Community
Lin & Lin Gallery is pleased to participate in 2025 ART021 BEIJING, presenting artworks by artists Wu Da-Yu, Zhao Zhao, Shen Liang, and Xu Hualing, showing the artist’s contemporary practice of traditional oriental aesthetics. From an oriental aesthetic perspective, Wu Da-Yu “nature”, Zhao Zhao’s metaphors for traditional contexts, Shen Liang’s reinterpretation of literati painting, and Xu Hualing’s use of blank space and slience in her gongbi paintings all explore the restoration and innovation of Eastern aesthetics in the form of Western modernist paintings.

Wu Da-Yu (1903-1988) was born in Jiangsu Yixing, China. He was the first generation of Chinese abstract painting representative and inspired an entire generation of Chinese artists. His students include Wu Guanzhong, Zao Wou-Ki, Chu Teh-Chun and others. Wu’s paintings depict casual subject matter seen in everyday life. He cleverly transforms concrete images with the momentum of Chinese brushwork, blending abstraction with the exquisite charm of Chinese culture. Wu creates impressions that resemble something without being literal. His wild brushstrokes and vivid colors form rhythmic spaces while delivering a spirit of natural harmony.

Zhao Zhao (1982- ) was born in Xinjiang, China and currently lives and works in Beijing and Los Angeles. Zhoa’s paintings, which combine traditional and contemporary elements, explore his philosophical thinking between East and West, and reveal his connection to his own culture. His new series “Seeds” goes beyond the traditional depiction of floral scenes. Colorful flowers with dots explore the continuity and cycle of life. And the title “Seeds” refers to the Zen thoughts of the life circle.

Xu Hualing (1975- ) was born in Heilongjiang, China, currently teaches in the Department of Chinese Painting, Chinese Painting at Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). Xu's works are inspired by the youthful images of contemporary women and her daily surroundings. All the time, intricate line and pale colors have always been the distinctive features of Xu's works. She consciously avoids delineating the outlines in traditional Gongbi painting. Instead, she uses light and shade and purposefully weakens the contrast. The pale colors render the blurring of a faint and misty figure. Xu also places the realism of traditional brushwork and the reality of photographic printing on the same surface enriches the hierarchy of the picture, showing the world like a daydream in her eyes.

Shen Liang (1976- ) was born in Liaoning, China and currently lives and works in Beijing. The artist has been thinking about the issues of tradition and daily life and giving diversified contemporary perspective to traditional Eastern literati painting. He creates from his personal observation of daily life, combining the spirit of Chinese ink with the medium and technology of Western art. By layering objects, his work reconstructs a world of imagination through Eastern defacement and constitutes a certain kind of reality beyond the objects and constant practices to realize the aesthetic tradition that runs in his veins.