Cui Nan to Participate in Auction with Zhang Xiaogang

Cui Nan will be participating in an upcoming Fall 2008 art auction by The Poly Group. The Poly Group has been responsible for launching the careers of many well known Chinese artists. What makes this event exciting is that Cui Nan's piece "Between Breaths" has been selected to be auctioned in the same lot as Zhang Xiaogang.

You can still purchase a hand finished limited edition print of the "Between Breaths" painting here.

Soos and Steel Dan mentioned in Print Magazine

Print Magazine recently did a story about the Olympics-themed graffiti in Beijing and asked Soos and Steel Dan to comment. You can view the entire article here.

Incoming...print by Cui Nan

Here are a few pics of an upcoming print by Cui Nan. This is a 13 color screen print on 300 GSM archival paper that will be hand finished by the artist. Be sure to check back regularly as we're going to release this print in the next couple of weeks. Click the images to see the details.

Chinese Graffiti Artist Steel Dan Hits Beijing

Steel Dan, and his crew ZNZN, recently hit the streets of Beijing with his stencils.

Learn more about Steel Dan here.

China censors exhibits...

While Chinese contemporary art is scorching hot in terms of prices and media coverage, people tend to forget that China is not a democracy. From Bloomberg:
"Chinese censors are forcing some art galleries to delay shows, including two with works by Andy Warhol and depicting the Dalai Lama, as the government tries to control the capital's appearance during the Olympic Games.

Galleri Faurschou said it postponed this weekend's show of Warhol's art because censors deemed it inappropriate to exhibit foreign works during China's biggest public event. Xin Beijing Art Gallery said it scrapped a weekend display of Ma Baozhong's work because censors found fault with his oil paintings of the Dalai Lama and former president Jiang Zemin.

``There was a view at the cultural ministry that with more than 40 heads of states visiting Beijing during the Olympics, it'd be better to show works by Chinese artists,'' Faurschou's director Kai Heinze said by phone today."

This is the main reason our headquarters are located in the United States (Seattle) with a branch office in China (Beijing.) We are able to circumvent the government's influence on our artists and their artwork.

Visit our store to see some amazing artwork by Chinese graffiti and urban artists...