Assembling the leading edge

Eight Chinese contemporary artists have gathered at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) for a group exhibition titled A History of the Future with Breaking Forecast: 8 Key Figures of China's New Generation Artists.

The eight artists - Cao Fei, Chu Yun, Liu Wei, Madein, Qiu Zhijie, Sun Yuan, Yang Fudong and Zheng Guogu - offer works in various media, such as painting, performance, installation, photography and film to offer their vision of the country's new generation.

Sun Yuan and Cao Yuan's sculpture Tomorrow features four lifelike sculptures of elderly men leaning against red walls. The work was shown during the Liverpool Biennale in 2006, but the artists threw the figures into the Albert Dock so it appeared there were four cadavers floating face down. This created a lot of attention and even resulted in a disagreement between the Biennale and police.