Live in the present moment. The present moment is the most important thing. Everyday life is the most important,   truest and most representative thing.” In this way, Cao Yingbin explains the content of his paintings. In the China of the moment, “we are only small figures without the right to speak out” and “at times our lives lack choices.”

“This art is all about people; their lives, their ideals, their entanglements, their gatherings, their loneliness”. Cao Yingbin’s art makes you think about the meaning and spirit of everyday life. His extensive range of repetitions and  contrasts inadvertently bring to our attention the certain absurdities of life, the twisting and struggling behind the display, and the causes and effects of much of society’s phenomena.


Critic: Huang Bin