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Cao Jigang (China, b.1955） Graduated from Oil Painting Dept. of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 1984, currently works and lives in Beijing. Cao Jigang's artistic style combines elements of Eastern and Western aesthetics and literati thoughts. Cao once said: "I'm exploring minimalist landscape painting, without crossing the boundaries to abstraction." In Cao's early works, he depicted the ruins of the Great Wall using oil painting, then began several periods to explore different materials and create his own language. Pencil and oil and acrylic to imitate ancient Chinese Shan-Shui, and over twenty years he combined the European technique of “Tempera” and Chinese Shan-Shui landscape to create his style of serenity landscape. Cao's works are characterized by a unique semi-transparent luminosity and a jade-like quality, achieved through layered brushwork to express a sense of emptiness. Recently he moved towards a "minimalist" style, further expanding the imaginative space of the metaphysical. Cao Jigang's artistic achievements have been recognized and received the Silver Award at the 9th National Art Exhibition in China(1999), exhibited in museums including National Art Museum of China, permanently collected by the National Art Museum of China, the Shanghai Art Museum, and important Chinese private collectors.