□ Xia Yu's Interview: Works Should Achieve Purity

T: In your opinion how do your newest works compare with your previous works? X: The basis is the same with few changes, the most obvious changes that you will see is in the depth of colors. In my previous works the colors were very subdued, which was reminiscent of the works one would have seen in the works of my forbearers... ......（More）

□ The Painter Who Just Paints By Teng Kun

After graduated from Room 3 of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Xia Yu spent six years on accumulation and waiting for the “point” that he becomes a professional painter, and those years experience of life has become into his resource of memories and changes. Now the artist who concentrates on “language” is celebrating his second solo Exhibition, meanwhile, he still keeps the qualities that he always had: “being pure” and “being shy”. “An artist is too far to touch, I ......（More）

□ Forgotten Memories by/Xia Yu

I have always held that the name of an exhibition is never important. In proof of my feelings every exhibition I have ever visited I forgot the name as soon as I left it. This exhibition includes works I have created from the end of 2011 through 2013, with the topics being an expansion of my previous topics. The topics are inaction and defenseless, elapse and remembrance, memory and writing. Time is a harsh mistress, the pains of our generation will become the jokes and even the source of ridicule for the ......（More）