Soka Art Beijing is honored to introduce the new exhibition "Tang Zhiyi : River of Time" on 26th June. Tang has highly artistic sensitivity and he's very modest about his talents and achievements. He used lacquer as the medium of paintings, an extremely labor and time-consuming work, the layers of lacquer coalesce into a textured grace rendered by the repeated act of overlaying and washing This is Tang’s first solo exhibition in Soka Art Beijing, it includes Tang Zhiyi’s works from 2015 to up to now and we will exhibit Tang's three new series; Boom, Ashes of Time, Flowery Valued Ashes, which show his development and orientation in art.

Any kind of local art language is the regeneration of western modern art discourse and local discourse - not simply the addition result, but the fusion after integration. The achievements of the development of Chinese modern and contemporary art are first reflected in the rise of modern art education. If there is no academy established in the “art revolution” to promote and spread western painting in China, it is difficult to imagine what contemporary art looks like in China. Those 8 artists are exactly at this special position, which not only continues the spread of modern aesthetic education in academies, but also breaks through the process of exploring contemporary art in the local context.