ART021 Spin
Solo exhibition
LONG Quan
Booth GF-10
Luxetown Mountain Plaza, Chengdu, China
9 – 11 April 2026
Solo exhibition
LONG Quan
Booth GF-10
Luxetown Mountain Plaza, Chengdu, China
9 – 11 April 2026
Press release
At ART021 Chengdu, Tabula Rasa Gallery introduces LONG Quan’s latest works, where his continued e
“Long Quan has created many works featuring water, where the form of the water’s surface shapes the entire composition. In this context, Long Quan’s floating light echoes Ma Yuan’s Water Map across time. However, just as Monet’s water lilies were not the true subject of his paintings, water itself is not the central theme in Long Quan’s work. In the artist’s own words, he paints fleeting light—the shifting play of light and shadow on the water’s surface. These variations are rooted in his exploration of the language of painting, emerging through the traces of pigments, lines, and brushstrokes.”
Excerpt from “Long Quan: Floating Light” by Zhang Chen
ABOUT THE ARTIST
LONG Quan (b. 1956, Chongqing, China) is an artist whose practice spans both sustained artistic production and extensive experience within China’s art education system. He graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with an MA in 1984, and taught there from 1985 to 2002, during which time he served as Associate Chair of the Oil Painting Department and Assistant to the President, and was also a member of the China Oil Painting Society. In 2002, LONG was responsible for establishing the art discipline at Beihang University in Beijing, where he later served as Dean of the School of New Media Art and Design from 2006 to 2016.
In recent years, he has held solo exhibitions at Tabula Rasa Gallery in Beijing, James Fuentes Gallery in New York, and YIMA Gallery in Chengdu. His work has also been presented in group exhibitions at institutions including the National Art Museum of China, Today Art Museum, the Capital Museum, and Yuan Art Center.
LONG's minimalist, almost naïveté approach to landscape painting emphasises a stark, structural form. With restrained brushstrokes and a controlled palette, he attempts to capture the ephemeral, even elusive state between movement and stillness in nature. In his paintings, mountains, rocks, trees, water, and clouds grow naturally in a slow, deliberate manner, dissolving the immediate urgency that typically defines our relationship with external images. His work offers a calm dignity, achieved through a lucid merging of closeness and remoteness.
At ART021 Chengdu, Tabula Rasa Gallery introduces LONG Quan’s latest works, where his continued e
“Long Quan has created many works featuring water, where the form of the water’s surface shapes the entire composition. In this context, Long Quan’s floating light echoes Ma Yuan’s Water Map across time. However, just as Monet’s water lilies were not the true subject of his paintings, water itself is not the central theme in Long Quan’s work. In the artist’s own words, he paints fleeting light—the shifting play of light and shadow on the water’s surface. These variations are rooted in his exploration of the language of painting, emerging through the traces of pigments, lines, and brushstrokes.”
Excerpt from “Long Quan: Floating Light” by Zhang Chen
ABOUT THE ARTIST
LONG Quan (b. 1956, Chongqing, China) is an artist whose practice spans both sustained artistic production and extensive experience within China’s art education system. He graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with an MA in 1984, and taught there from 1985 to 2002, during which time he served as Associate Chair of the Oil Painting Department and Assistant to the President, and was also a member of the China Oil Painting Society. In 2002, LONG was responsible for establishing the art discipline at Beihang University in Beijing, where he later served as Dean of the School of New Media Art and Design from 2006 to 2016.
In recent years, he has held solo exhibitions at Tabula Rasa Gallery in Beijing, James Fuentes Gallery in New York, and YIMA Gallery in Chengdu. His work has also been presented in group exhibitions at institutions including the National Art Museum of China, Today Art Museum, the Capital Museum, and Yuan Art Center.
LONG's minimalist, almost naïveté approach to landscape painting emphasises a stark, structural form. With restrained brushstrokes and a controlled palette, he attempts to capture the ephemeral, even elusive state between movement and stillness in nature. In his paintings, mountains, rocks, trees, water, and clouds grow naturally in a slow, deliberate manner, dissolving the immediate urgency that typically defines our relationship with external images. His work offers a calm dignity, achieved through a lucid merging of closeness and remoteness.
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