Art Central Hong Kong 2026
Qualia Contemporary Art makes our Art Central Hong Kong debut at Booth A1 with a duo presentation of new paintings by Lyu Peng and Xu Hongming. This exhibition traces the divergent trajectories of contemporary Chinese painting, placing Lyu’s theatrical figuration in direct conversation with Xu’s luminous, systems-based abstraction. While the artists share a material vocabulary—ink, mineral pigment, silk, and xuan paper—they arrive at opposing methodologies of investigating Chinese tradition. Lyu balances narrative density and the staged illumination of symbolic figures, whereas Xu focuses on the diffusion of light within atmospheric fields.
Together, they articulate diverging approaches in contemporary Chinese painting: one oriented toward a maximalist documentation of the present, and the other toward a materialist deconstruction of the image.
