Shuare Shizhu blends his rural Yi heritage with bold, urban strokes informed by the absurdities of modern life
We’re in a restaurant a short drive from Shuare Shizhu’s workshop. The 31-year-old painter is entertaining a young Chinese art dealer and his entourage with whom he had just had a long conversation about destiny and rebirth. “I must have been a pig in a previous life,” he says with a cheeky smile, biting his lower lip.
Beyond the Frame: Shuare Shizhu’s World in Wide Strokes is a story from our issue, “Education Nation.” To read the entire issue, become a subscriber and receive the full magazine.
Roman Kierst is a staff writer and editor at The World of Chinese based in Beijing but much more at home in Chengdu, where his own China story first began as a high school exchange student in 2006. Likes to pick up a film camera occasionally to take pictures of (mostly) old places.
