Chambers Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening on November 6, 2008 of C0 2008, the maiden flight of four young artists from China who are exhibiting for the first time in New York. Recognizing that it is impossible for any one person to select promising artists from among the thousands who graduate each year, Christophe W. Mao asked some of China鈥檚 leading artists and teachers for their recommendations. Three of the artists 鈥
Chen Zhiyuan,
Jia Hongyu and
Zhao Jingyan 鈥 were pupils of Qiu Zhijie in the Department of Experimental Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou while Yuan Yuan was a pupil of Yu Hong at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. Chambers Fine Art is proud to present these recent works by four talented young artists who show the degree to which the preoccupations of artists born in the 1980s 鈥 just when Chinese society was beginning its dramatic transformation 鈥 differ from those of their immediate predecessors. Rejecting political involvement and social commentary, their work tends to be personal, introspective and reflective rather than extrovert and political.