Source: CCTV.com

06-27-2007 10:05

Let's take a step beyond from portrayals of what's real and tangible and take a flight into the Art of the imagination. He's the first Chinese painter ever to be chosen as President of the American Oil Painters Association - a post he's held for three years now. Many may ask, who is Tu Zhiwei, the painter, what is his work all about? Well, as it happens he has a show at Beijing's National Museum of Fine Arts.

The divided world of Tu Zhiwei: a world that exists on many levels, vertically and horizontally and even touching new dimensions. Presumably the painter resides here somewhere. But just where, may be hard to cite, as he seems to set his spirit free from the confines of the body, entering a realm a little beyond immediate experience, a little removed from the known time-space continuum.