Author Description

"Long" and "Hu" are two weird worms in Chinese classics that differs from each other. Yu Xiangming & Zhang Biao put them together and created a new image - Longhu, the one as we see it today. This whole process resembles "fusion" in a certain way. Longhu has beard and claws and wings and fins*** It's able to go up high to the heaven and go down low into the earth. Omnipotent he is. The quotation from classics of Chinese traditional culture, the bold combination and creation, the choice of contemporary art as language, all these give expression to artists' rigorous and rational thinking. Of the two artists, Zhang Biao looked at the contratidction between Ego and Id in one's inner world from a micro-perspective, whereas Yu Xiangming chose a macro-perspective to examine and ponder on the ojbective results of this contradiction. Together, actually, they spoke about the tremendous impact that lashed out at our hearts by the 30-years' social changes in China. These two artists chose Longhu as element, oil painting and installation as carrier, expressedd to us their philosophical probe into the question of finding "The right way". -- back cover