After her successful displays at the London Royal Academy of Arts, “Summer Exhibition”, and “L'Art en Capital” at the Grand Palais, the new Gallery of the Louvre  museum in Paris, artist Li Chevalier presents, from 26 th to 31 st May 2010, her latest painting collection at this premier location for contemporary art in Beijing, the Today Art Museum.

A most notable female artist on the contemporary Chinese art scene,   Li Chevalier has an outstanding curriculum vitae.  After training as a singer in the Chinese Army's opera troupe from age 14 to 19, she moved to Europe and dedicated herself to visual art in the Italian renaissance city of Florence in the mid-90s.  15 years of intellectual and artistic dedication earned her two post-graduate degrees, one from the College of Philosophy at the Sorbonne University in Paris and another from the highly prestigious, avant-garde, Central St Martins' College of Arts and Design in London.  She has been involved in more than 40 solo and group exhibitions and her work is held by hundreds of collectors across the globe.

In her oriental aesthetic quest, Chevalier has elected to work in ink. By using mix media including Chinese ink on canvas, she transcends the classical ink-on-paper model, thus building a bridge with modernity.  Her works have been hailed as a creative and exciting reconciliation of Chinese and European aesthetics in which a particular Chinese sensitivity appears through the artful blending of western and eastern ideas and media.

Chevalier's works depart from the often social and political discourse dominating the Chinese art of her generation and reflect her claim on oriental philosophy.  In the overwhelmingly noisy, speedy, neurotic and rebellious modern art world often characterised by subversive and provocative visual shocks, Chevalier strives to free her viewers from earthly gravitation to reach an aesthetic and spiritual elevation.