Rainbow, 2006

Jiang Zhi belongs to that numerous group of Chinese artists, also including Yang Fudong and Liu Wei, who towards the end of the 1990s, came to the attention of the international public with the appellative of ‘Post-Sense Sensibility’, in the exhibition of the same name in 1999 presenting works that were radically new compared to the rigid formalism of their academic teachings. Born in the province of Hunan, Jiang, he moved while still young to Shenzhen, one of the large cities that serve as the economic powerhouse for the entire country, where he worked for a few years as a correspondent for a local newspaper before deciding to dedicate himself to art full time. [...]