Sun Yitian's work Shut Up and Hug Me was displayed at the National Art Museum of China’s exhibition "One and All: New Artistic Styles of Contemporary Painting".
The 35 participating artists, spanning from the post-60s, post-70s to post-90s, are part of the new creative force active in the contemporary art world with their artistic growth spanning the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s. Their creative practices revolve around the simple and primitive medium of painting, combining new artistic languages with the reality of the Chinese experience, and integrating international perspectives with Chinese culture. Their artistic practices not only integrate elements from different traditions, genres, image sources and formal methods, but also continuously utilize the contextual dynamics of the medium itself to establish connections and cross boundaries between seemingly unrelated elements, in order to prove that in a time when visual art is so saturated with information, it is not enough to create a new medium for art. In a world so saturated with visual information, painting still has a fundamental and essential value as a vital and groundbreaking technique.
