Zheng Yiqiang graduated as postgraduate student from Central Academy of Fine Art, Oil Painting Department in 2007.  He uses division method in his works.  This method enhances the richness in contents and it provokes the viewers to interpret the works with intensity; moreover it puzzles the viewer with the imageries.  The artist includes subjects, objects, and the observed on the canvas, which creates paintings that are divided yet as a whole.  Because of the accumulation of colors, elements, details, and techniques, these ordinary scenarios become vague and even abstract.

Wu Yanzhen is currently studying doctoral degree in the Central Academy of Fine Art.  His works highlights the explosion of information in this internet driven society. Moreover, the idea extends to all scenarios surrounds the conflicts and connections of modern society.  The artist’s focus on social issue and his interest in archeology shape his current technique and style.  Wu Yanzhen’s work is layered so that abundance of the imageries and information of modern society are buried under all those “stratums.”  The process of creating art is like an archeological dig, he then destroys the stratum layer by layer to reveal the final result.

Zheng Yiqiang and Wu Yanzhen have totally different techniques of dealing with imageries: one is by accumulation of symbols and ideas; the other is by reduction and destruction of surface.  Yet, the sincerity and passion to convey their world view are the common ground found in both artists’ works.