Su Xiaobai (1949) - Imperial Academy I

Su Xiaobai
Etching and aquatint signed and numbered 40 in white pencil

Excellent condition

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Su Xiaobai lives between China and Germany. He has developed a body of work that is at once sensual and rigorous, unclassifiable, with lacquer as his preferred medium, deeply rooted in Chinese history. His works, both hedonistic and mystical, possess a pronounced sculptural strength. Rather than depicting objects, his art questions the very idea of Being. At the heart of his approach, Su's oeuvre uses a visual language to embody issues that are both philosophical and, on a daily human level, universal.

He is internationally recognized. Among his solo exhibitions: Niao Niao (2025), Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China; Su Xiaobai: Blue (2022–23), Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan; Su Xiaobai (2014), Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France. Group exhibitions include Accidents [Part I] (2020), Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China; Abstract by Nature (2019), Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA; The World Is Yours, as Well as Ours (2016), White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London, UK; Jing Shen: The Act of Painting in Contemporary China (2015), PAC Milan Museum of Contemporary Art, Italy; Perfection by Chance—A Yi Pai Series Exhibition (2015), Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China; Where Does It All Begin? Contemporary Abstract Art in Asia and the West (2014), Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore; Chinese Contemporary Abstract: 1980s until Present: MINDMAP (2012), Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China; and Yi Pai: Thirty Years of Chinese Abstraction (2008), Beijing, China and Madrid, Spain.