The fair was huge, covering two entire floors of the very large Exhibition halls.

The exhibition was separated into several sections. The first section, which was the only selling part of the exhibition, was held on the ground floor and was focused more on traditional Chinese painting as well as fairly conventional international art. Lots of landscape paintings like these (not really my cup of tea):

It got much more interesting on the second floor. The entire second floor of the exhibition hall was taken up by the art fair. The theme of this part of the fair was called “A Beautiful New World”.

I saw a couple of artists I had been following for a while. I liked these three large scale works by the Luo Brothers.

They had one piece by Yu Feifei, an artist I first saw in Taipei earlier this year. She also sometimes goes by the acronym ‘Flora’.

Yu FeiFei and these following works are great examples of a theme I am particularly drawn to, which is the combination of almost photo realistic elements (demonstrating great technical mastery) combined with surreal and abstract elements. The visual effect created by these paintings would be difficult to achieve in any other medium such as sculpture or photography.