GROOING IN THE DARK

Duration | 2018.3.10-5.27

Venue | OCAT Xi'an (Beichitou First Street south, Yanta Distract, Xi'an City, Shanxi Provence)

Qiu Ruixiang's painting style and the visual forms achieved are steeped in the indexical language of his  immediate cultural framework; not "China" in the formal sense of national identity, but that of the specific experience of China's rural north-west, his native Shanxi province. Here, in Qiu Ruixiang's painting this sense of history deeply in fused in the soils picked up on by Beijing-based Zhao Gang whilst driving across Shanxi to absorb inspiration for the momental painting titledThe Party that the produced for our first "About Painting" exhibition  in 2014. This exhibition was also a modest debut for Qiu Ruixiang.