Opposite thinking has incubated an incredable tension of contradictory.

An imaginary space: full of strange light, uncontaminated. The symbols that Zhang Qikai created – Civilized society; in that space, the Panda have been travelling around in Super Dimension scenario or sitting on the fired match or lie down on the fresh and juice’s fruits and flowers. They are different symbols – nature and individual. In this impossible setting the conflict between human civilizations and nature appears, as well as the conflict between society and the individual. This surreal expects actually have a long history; somewhere in time appeared in inner of the heart, they are ubiquitous,

Zhang Qikai was born in SiChuan Province in 1950, who is the famous German-Chinese artist and critic, Once he studied art in Japan from 1987 then migrated to Germany in 1990. Zhang Qikai’s arts are in the same vein as Modernist thought, striving for a foothold in the contemporary ranks. He always took a critical standpoint in his art, making use of a vigilant language, whilst striving to preserve an elegant state of form, and emphasizing the visual system of aesthetics.

Fuzzy Panda is a character and symbolic of Zhang Qikai, their lonely figures are often placed in uniquely-lit architectural spaces. The paintings executed strictly in accordance with the rules of perspective creating a virtual, surrealist space, full of calm, mature and non-fairy tale aesthetic mood. However, portray described the reality, such as we may have seen all around us: floating in the cloudy sky, or upon a spoondrift, the crowded skyscrapers of the city…The panda keeps still in the air, personified leaning on such tiny delicate objects as a flower, an apple or a ring. Disorder and dislocation in size measure would deal with diverse visual signs in portfolios to catch your eyes accompanied with countless surprise and admiration. In particular, the dramatic voyage of these exhausted little pandas conveying a huge football as if it is filled with teamwork in life journey. The drumbeat follows by hilarious scenario to kick off the World Football.

Under the spoil and protections of humanity, the panda has already solemnly accepted as a totemic symbol of the Chinese people. It differs from animals have utilized in the past in that it does not appear as a passive creature lost in thought upon the canvas; it appears in anthropomorphized attitude actively assessing what is happening in the world around it. Without a doubt, the panda here is only a symbol; it does not seek to alter the established order of human history, whereas the past of humanity, it presents and future fill us with such anxiety. In the paintings, the fuzzy panda has no heroic mettle; he is experiencing the vast movements of human society, and is filled with a mixture of curiosity and suspicion at all that occurs around him.

Big panda looks down contemplating an unforeseen world as if a match lights the sky of the Wall Street and it seems never die out.「Wheel of good fortune」goes through the universe and tosses around the next era to be desired.「Fall in Love with Mona Lisa」is as a centurial-long legend in hopes of meeting the most beautiful one in the end.

Zhang Qikai’s new creation---” Zhang Qikai’s wonderland” is talk about the East-West relationship, the cultures of China and the West have been in a state of mutual enrichment and mutual resistance. the panda refers to China; on the other hand, the apple from the Garden of Eden, Wall street and Louvre Museum are symbols from the West. There are appearing in the fictitious space, they will generate an intense opposition in artistic language, whilst they are images that the audience is familiar with, so that in terms of imagery they are easier to identify with.

The artist deploys such typical symbol as the panda flying across the magical cosmos. By means of ridiculous and humorous painting, this kind of communication is full of fun that has built a surreal world to get away with the reality by leading audiences to enter another astonishing magic space.

Zhang Qikai, who is the famous Chinese-German artist and critic, was born in Shehong County, Sichuan Province in 1950, and moved to Chongqing with his family in 1953. Once he studied art in Japan from 1987 to 1990, then migrated to Germany in 1990. Mr. Zhang devoted himself to art education and cultural exchanges between East and West after he came back to China in 2000.