Luo Zhongli, a significant Chinese artist in both modern and contemporary art from Sichuan Province, is exhibiting his oil paintings and sculptures at the “Partita in Bashan” exhibition at E Contemporary Art Museum in Futian District. His son Luo Dan also is showcasing his oil paintings.

    Born in Chongqing, Luo Zhongli was the head of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. His works are collected by the National Art Museum of China and National History Museum of Belgium. His representative oil painting “Father” in 1981 is considered to be a milestone of Chinese art for his realistic close-up portrait of an ordinary farmer in the Daba Mountain in Sichuan Province.

    Luo Zhongli holds the view that “art should be entrenched in life” and imbues his artistic conception with folk aestheticism which forms a vocabulary of painting that is both distinct and unique to him.

    In more than 40 years of artistic creation, his art has consistently centered on the eternal themes of the reality of human nature and love. From his realist style of the 1980s, the exploration of the folk mannerist style in the 1990s, to his change in employing the linear style after 2000, he has now fused the aesthetics of two-dimensional paintings with three-dimensional sculptures. Taking the modeled sculpture as a base, he applies the purest and most primitive of colors to its surface, creating artwork with sharp lines and a robust appearance characteristic of wood sculptures and the exaggerated flexibility of additive sculptures.

    His son Luo Dan now works at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. A rock music lover, Luo Dan’s oil paintings are mostly about rock musicians with bright and bold colors.

    Dates: Until March 2017

    Open: 10 a.m.-6 p.m., closed Mondays

    Venue: E Contemporary Art Museum, 1/F, Creative Free Trade Zone, Binglang Road, Futian Free Trade Zone (福田保税区槟榔道创意保税园首层E当代美术馆)

    Metro: Longgang Line, Yitian Station (益田站), Exit A and then take a taxi(Cao Zhen)