Hailed by the media as a gallery that “creates the art brand,” Soka Art Center features the most complete collection of works by China’s first generation of oil painters, such as Li Tiefu, Lin Fengmian, Hsu Beilong, and Yan Wenliang.  It also leads the Chinese art community in collecting important Asian contemporary artworks by artists, such as Cai Guoqiang, Hong Ling, Xu Bing, Yoshitomo Nara, and Yayoi Kusama.  By conducting considerable research of academic literature and showcasing works through exhibitions, Soka systematically organizes the art history of oil painting in China so that collectors can experience a different type of immersion in art.  

With the arrival of spring, Soka Art Center is now promoting a collection of works by twenty-three artists in its exhibition, “The Warm Rivers of Spring,” which symbolizes the cycle of time as the four seasons come and go.  Now, following the cold of winter, spring has come again.  Furthermore, through these thirty-eight works, viewers can also get a glimpse into the past and future of Soka.  Without a doubt, the year 2013 marks a new beginning.  Soka is eager to work with everybody to “get rid of the old and bring in the new,” so that a whole new era of art can be experienced together.  

The exhibition, a total of 38 pieces of 23 artists on display, includes several generations of art masters of fine paintings, both Mr. Chu, Wen Li Peng, such as Chen junde old top artists and also have Hong Ling, Xuhui MAO, Wang Yigang, Wang Xiangming, back, Zhang Jian middle generation such as well-known artists, and li chao, Zhao Bo, Xun Gui Pin new generation potential artists, etc.

From the works on display, from "Li River Series" (born in 1916, senior artist MAO Ke) to "I Shan Shan Stone" (born in 1987, written by a new generation of artist Liu Lijuan), all of them have artistic vitality beyond time. At the beginning of the New Year, Soka Art Center first launched the collection exhibition "Spring River Warming" by 22 artists, aiming to break the boundary of time. With spring, summer, autumn and winter as the exhibition clue, it implies that time will circulate in the cycle of four seasons and the vitality of art will be passed on from generation to generation by talented artists.