Liberty gets a makeover

Zeng Fanzhi has created a series of works that link classic European masters with contemporary painting. Lin Qi reports.

Zeng Fanzhi's solo exhibition at ShanghART Beijing is "a quiet show catering purely to painting lovers", gallery founder Lorenz Helbling says.

The Louvre Project displays four paintings, From 1830 Till Now, which Zeng, 51, created for a special show at the Louvre in Paris last year. The idea originated at a meeting between Zeng and Henri Loyrette, then director of the Louvre, in Hong Kong in 2011. The two decided to cooperate on an exhibition to examine the interaction between classic and contemporary art.