In the early 1990s, Gu Liming observed a new direction for abstract language in the pictures and new year pictures decorating Mawangdui wardrobes from the Han Dynasty. This prompted him to create the two series, Han Mawangdui and Yang Jiabu Door Deities. Constructing a new contemporary cultural consciousness from this, Gu launched a logical starting point from which to rediscover artistic language and value. He attempted to reconstruct a personal, historically relevant, local, and modern artistic language that did not invoke the discourse or ideology of Western contemporary art.

Zhang Yingnan(b. 1981)is from Beijing, Mitsuhiro Ikeda(b. 1978) is from Japan, Wang Ting Yu(b. 1981) is from Taiwan. Three young artists of different origins and geographies from three different places in Asia are also exhibited at Soka Beijing. The three artists are quietly painting people, through the traditional picture of painting to tell the inner feelings, or to build a personal "charting with constellation". The three artists first solved the technical and surface form of exploration and training, turned to the real creation, the expression of the community, the personal feelings for the new world, to build as an individual inner world images.