Marking its 45th anniversary, Alisan Fine Arts presents a year-long “Then and Now” programme. Running in parallel with the “Then” exhibition in Central, this exhibition at Alisan Atelier maps the “Now;” it brings together 4 contemporary artists who take inherited materials, images, and ideas and transpose them into contemporary spatial, material, and conceptual frameworks. 

Li Donglu (b. 1982) draws on classical Western draftsmanship alongside Chinese pictorial thought, orchestrating light, colour, and precision to open contemplative, cosmological vistas. Yao Qingmei (b. 1982) redeploys archival film, performance, and installation to meditate on time, loss, and the body within public ritual and structures of power. Shi Qi (b. 1978), hand-paints rice paper in ink and colour, then meticulously folds and mounts it to canvas, blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, between action of creation and spiritual exploration. Qi Zhuo (b. 1985) reworks traditional sculptural lineages through glass, metal, and repair, pairing humour with critique to probe authenticity and cultural transfer.  

Together, these practices show how memory becomes material and how tradition becomes a generative constraint, reframing inheritance as invention in the present tense.

Opening reception: 20.5.2026（Wed）5:30 – 7:30 pm

Gallery address: 21/F Lyndhurst Tower, 1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central