Olyvia Fine Art is proud to present 'Home of Others', a retrospective exhibition of Zhong Biao's finest work.

A fantasy-realist painter of the highest order and technique, Zhong Biao's critically acclaimed, internationally successful work makes him one of the most widely recognized contemporary Chinese artists working today. His work has been exhibited throughout Asia, Europe and more recently - North America.

In 'Home of Others' we can see Zhong Biao's painterly early-evolution unfolding over a ten-year period. In Biao's early realist compositions, the viewers' perspective is warped and attention is drawn to localised concentrations of colour. While in later works, large tracts of void canvas surround disconnected objects and imagery, which are implausibly placed - often floating or out of perspective, but are harmoniously composed and realized as a whole.

Zhong Biao's body of work explores the coexistence of seemingly unrelated objects and symbols and highlight the change in their significance over time. Consistently in his work there is a central figure and an "other" figure. These figures stand independently but are in fact strongly correlated and illustrate more complex behaviour and relationships patterns.

Zhong Biao also uses common Chinese symbols of social reform, Cultural Revolution as well as capitalist clichés, to capture the pulse of China's socio-political reforms.  The passage of these Chinese objects and symbols through time represent physical memories of a culture, which juxtaposed with a Boeing aircraft or a McDonalds sign represent the chaotic and disharmonious nature of the current world.

Zhong Biao was born in 1968 in Chongquing and studied at the Zhejiang Fine Arts Academy. He is now a professor at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. His painting has won international acclaim for its avant-garde, almost proto-surrealist style.