Red Gate Gallery will present "China Dream" in Beijing. The exhibition is a project by three Shanghai based painters, all mid career artists, Xue Song, Pu Jie, Chris Gill. The artists are all famous in contemporary art world. This time they team up to work on a project to express theri views and sights of this contemporary Chinese society.

Chinese society is an ever shifting world of constant change.People re-invent themselves, whole cities appear in short periods of time, people’s relationships shift, many change their names, and many people live in a floating world of inconsistence. Chinese society is constantly changing, and people are in a constant state of flux.

This exhibition hopes to represent the views and sights of this contemporary society through the works of three Shanghai based artists who have known each other for around 15 years, three generations of change in popular parlance. and this exhibition also hopes to reflect the internal process of dialogue between artists. With a narrative element that explores these two themes, audiences should be able to grasp a glimpse into themselves.

In the work of Xue Song we see individuals sailing through this new society in a faux ecstatic harmony, dancing in the new environments being created around them. Pu Jie talks about the relationship between this new state of being and the old mind set that still exists, hidden behind the happy bright facades. Chris Gill creates fantastic landscapes out of various found materials, and constructs new places that exist maybe in dreams, or maybe in reality.

Xue Song was born in 1965 in Anhui province. He graduated from the Shanghai Drama Institute, Stage Design Department in 1988. He resides and works in Shanghai. Xue Song has exhibited widely since his first solo-exhibition in 1999.

Proceeding from a cultural logic that transforms antagonisms into collaborations, Xue Song’s art finds expression in the negative space left behind: soot and ash are crucial elements, and the outlines of some of the figures in his images look as if they have been burned out. For him, ash is a reminder of fate and a symbol of rebirth. Fire plays a central role in Xue Song’s work. It is a form of mourning.

Pu Jie was born in Shanghai in 1959. He graduated from Shanghai Teachers University, Fine Art Department in 1986. Recent exhibitions include Memory and Witness-Pu Jie's Solo Art Exhibition, Museum at Tamada Projets, Tokyo, Japan(2009); Look Ahead, Look Back-Pu Jie's Solo Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing,(2009); Red Hot-Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA (2007); Mahjong-Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland(2005), City of London Festival, Royal Exchange (2003), The Dream of the City by the Sea, Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte (Hamburg, 2003) and Speed of Culture, ShanghART Gallery (2002).

In his artistic practice, Pu Jie attempts to use fragments of collective memory as well as his own personal experiences to compose a narrative of a contemporary way of existence in the shadow of China’s recent past. Avoiding trappings of both nostalgia and amnesia, he references instead life in the rapidly expanding urban metropolis and its oscillating imageries of eroticism, political propaganda and ancient myths. Monochromatic colors in red, yellow and blue dominate his large-scale paintings.

Born in the UK he grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa and came to China originally to study the Chinese language. He graduated from The University of Newcastle, and spent a year studying at the Peoples' University of China in Beijing.

The main theme of his art work is creating a visual diary of the changing society in China, using predominately painting, sculpture, and photography.

He trained and worked as a print maker in the UK. He opened his first studio in China in the old Summer Palace in 1992.Since then he has shown work in several group and solo shows across the country, and his work has been bought by collectors and galleries from as far afield as Australia and the Bahamas.

This year Shanghai Art Museum commissioned him to produce a visual essay about the city, called "City of Gold."