Huang Rui, (b. 1952, Beijing), is one of China’s most highly regarded artists, one of the first non- conformist art groups of China in the ‘70s, the Stars Group (Xing Xing 星星), a pivotal art movement that are initiated by like-minded artists such as, Wang Keping, Ma Desheng, and Ai Wei Wei. As a seminal figure of the Dashanzi Factory 798 Art District, Huang Rui has sought to express art’s function as a reflection of society and its strength in addressing contemporary concerns, since co-organizing China’s first public art exhibition in Beijing in 1979. A series of Huang Rui’s early works dating from the era of 1979-1984 will be shown for the first time in Hong Kong. These early abstract works represent a new framing of reality for contemporary China, one that becomes free from the expressions of socialist realism, which controlled art under Maoist China.

-10 Chancery Lane Gallery

Image: © Huang Rui
Courtesy of the artist and 10 Chancery Lane Gallery