Xu Lei at the Aman Summer Palace

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October 1 – 29, 2009
Aman at Summer Palace, 1 Gongmenqian Street, Beijing

RedBox Studio and Mee-Seen Loong Fine Art present recent ink paintings by the Beijing based contemporary artist Xu Lei at the Aman at Summer Palace. Combining traditional Chinese ink and brush techniques with the spirit of Western surrealism, his paintings are poetic mysteries, cerebrally enticing and visually arresting with their saturated ink and color palette and fusion of symbolic motifs from Eastern and Western painting traditions. Infused with wit, irony and a subtle coded eroticism, Xu Lei’s paintings reveal through the art of concealment.

Xu Lei’s works have been featured in important international exhibitions exploring the contemporary transformation of Chinese painting, including the watershed China/Avant-Garde exhibition at the China Art Museum in 1989 and 5000 Years of Chinese Art and Civilization at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in 1998 and Bilbao in 2000. In 2008 Xu Lei had a solo exhibition sponsored by the Asian Divison at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. In 2011, his paintings will be included in a major exhibition of contemporary Chinese art at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. His work is represented in major museums and private collections in China and abroad.

Xu Lei (b. 1963) is a graduate of the Fine Arts Department of the Nanjing Arts Institute. He currently lives and works in Beijing.

This exhibition previews highlights from the upcoming exhibition presented by Mee-Seen Loong Fine Art at Joan B. Mirviss Ltd, New York, opening in January 2010. (Complete image list here)

3-5pm October 10 cocktail reception hosted in part by Potocki Wodka and Aman at Summer Palace.

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