Su Xiaobai

Oil，lacquer，linen and wood
220 x 181 cm.86 5/8 x 71 1/4 in.
Signed in Pinyin on lower right；titled and dated in Chinese，signed in P　inyin and Chinese on the reverse
LITERATURE World-Arts Publishing House, Beijing, China, World Art: Special Edition of Chinese Abstract Art, Chinese Version, Contemporary Art Vol 1, May, 2008, backcover.
PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.
Su Xiaobai
In 1987, on the occasion of surging Chinese contemporary art, Su Xiao-Bai won a German culture and art scholarship and went to Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, Germany for research and further study, where he studied from modern artist master Konrad Klapheck, Gerard Richter, and Markus Lupertz. Lived in Germany for 20 years, experienced the processes of cultural differences, impact of artistic ideas, and cross-conversion, Su Xiao-Bai’s artisti
The year of 2005 became the artist’s breakthrough year, Su Xiao-Bai had blended the essence of his homeland culture into his already mature abstract paintings. Around this year, Su Xiao-Bai returned to homeland, in Fujian he occasionally found the Chinese lacquer already having a history of thousands of years, from it, he suddenly had a idea and was boomingly inspired, subsequently he often sprays it on thick homemade linens and tiles, this sta
Chinese ancient lacquer crafts can be traced back to the Neolithic Era, its history is even far earlier than the invention of silk and ceramics. The kind of things stressing contained texture and subtle quality, such as lacquer, chinaware, silk and rice paper, jointly created China’s humanistic character, among them, lacquer’s clumsy, thick, rustic, quiet and restrained characteristics are especially regarded as the highest quality learning a
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