The artists will attend the opening reception between 6 to 8pm on Friday, December 12th, 2008

Art Beatus puts on display the works of an artist couple in its December exhibition.
The works of the husband, Yang Dazhi, are colourful figures of fables or children’s stories
and the wife, Fu Xiaodong, works on pixel graffiti of the New Youth generation.

Creativity is abundant in how this husband and wife team manipulate each specific medium. Their works, though are very different one from the other, are brimmed with the same message of youthfulness.

In his characterization, Yang Dazhi is not repainting familiar figures who have become children-book clichés. The personalities, though easily identifiable, are not certain particular individuals of certain particular stories. They are the summations of many. The vivid colours and attention to fine details of Yang's paintings aim at heightening their first impression on the viewers as well as spiking their childhood recollections.

For the past few years, Fu Xiaodong has been exploring the intricacy of graphics, whether they are vocabularies of some trendy expressions or some simplified pictorial scribbles. Fu gathers them, internalizes them and pain-takingly pixels them onto small wood planks, turning these random expressions into strong statements for the e-generation.

She groups all these works under “Made by the New Youths”, one collective name for a series of creative processes, lasting thoughts and interesting ideas as if they are of no big significance.