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Beijing

It's raining motions at group exhibition

Zhong Gallery's current exhibition Divine Signs explores the underlying connotations of contemporary art, from the perspective of transcendentalism, as paintings of Chinese artists Fang Lijun, Shang Yang, Su Xinping and Wang Guangyi go on display. The works portray the artists' understanding of how people pursue materialistic benefits. Fang's untitled paintings, for instance, show crowds expectantly looking up at the sky for "sweet dew drops" to fall, but are soon unwelcoming of a sticky liquid that rains instead. Fang uses dew drops as a metaphor for wealth.