Oil artist keeps pushing the frontier

A foremost figure in abstract painting and installation art, Zhu Jinshi has made a name for establishing a "thick painting" style that is marked with a highly saturated palette and multiple layers of colors to deliver a weighty, three-dimensional effect.

The Beijing artist's exhibition, Painting Sociology, at Tang Contemporary Art Beijing's second space, probes how he relates this unique invention of painting approach to the changes of time and their influence on the language of painting.

As one enters into Zhu's world of art, fascinated by the forcible way he stirs, mixes and piles up the thick pigment on canvas, one senses the passion, confusion, sorrow, happiness and deep reflections.

The show is running through June 8.