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Wide shot of Red Gate Gallery at top of Dongbianmen watch tower in Beijing 2. View of passing train from top of watch tower 3. Wide pan of inside of Gallery to two of Su Xinping's oil paintings 4....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eBeijing, China - March 19, 2008  \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot of Red Gate Gallery at top of Dongbianmen watch tower in Beijing \u003cbr/\u003e2. View of passing train from top of watch tower \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide pan of inside of Gallery to two of Su Xinping's oil paintings \u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE : (English) Brian Wallace, Director, Red Gate Gallery  \u003cbr/\u003e\"The art scene has developed from virtually nothing 20 years ago to growing quite strongly in many different directions. There is a booming art market for contemporary Chinese art and many artists are participating in that for the first time.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide shot of Su Xinping print: \"Toast and Comrade Series No. 4\" \u003cbr/\u003e6. Close-up of Su Xinping print  \u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid shot man looking at Su Xinping oil painting: \"Street Series No. 2\" \u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide exterior of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) \u003cbr/\u003e9. Setup Su Xinping talking with student in CAFA wood printing studio \u003cbr/\u003e10. Close-up of Su Xinping drawing on stone with oil pencil \u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid shot Su Xinping pouring spirit on cloth and cleaning stone \u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid shot Su Xinping cleaning stone with cloth \u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid of Su Xinping putting ink on roller \u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide shot of Su Xinping rolling ink on stone \u003cbr/\u003e15. Close up ink roller \u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid of Su Xinping and student putting print in press \u003cbr/\u003e17. Mid shot Su Xinping releasing press and turning press wheel \u003cbr/\u003e18. Paper pulled off stone to reveal print: \u003cbr/\u003eUPSOUND: (Mandarin) Su Xinping. \"And this is the result.\" \u003cbr/\u003e19. Close pan of prints hanging overhead \u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE : (Mandarin) Su Xinping, Contemporary Artist  \u003cbr/\u003e\"The closer we are, the more we should become independent, because in the early stages of forming a style, influence is terrible.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide shot of two of Su Xinping's oil paintings: \"Toast\" (on the left) and \"Portrait\" (on the right) \u003cbr/\u003e22. Close-up of \"Toast\" \u003cbr/\u003e23. Close-up of \"Portrait\" \u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE : (Mandarin) Su Xinping, Contemporary Artist  \u003cbr/\u003e\"I suddenly thought one day, 'I'm doing prints, but why can't I do oils or sculpture?' I found there were no obstacles because once your idea is established, the basic principles of them are the same.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e25. Close up of Su Xinping carving on wood print \u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide shot wood carving \u003cbr/\u003e27. Close up of carving\u003cbr/\u003e28. Close-up Su Xinping's assistant rolling paint on wood print \u003cbr/\u003e29. Mid pan from coloured paints on table to assistant turning press wheel \u003cbr/\u003e30. Mid of Su Xinping and assistant pulling paper off wood to reveal print \u003cbr/\u003e31. SOUNDBITE : (Mandarin) Su Xinping, Contemporary Artist \u003cbr/\u003e\"After I came to Beijing, I thought this cosmopolitan city was very strange. So what influenced me most was my life from my childhood and the time I spent in the grasslands. I could express my strongest emotions in the paintings of the grasslands.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e32. Brian Wallace showing Su Xinping's print: \"Sea of Desire\". \u003cbr/\u003e33. SOUNDBITE : (English) Brian Wallace, Director, Red Gate Gallery  \u003cbr/\u003e\"After 1989, everything slowed down for two years. Nothing was happening, there were no exhibitions, people weren't out on the streets peddling their wares or anything. But in '91, things started to move on again and there were a lot of people taking the step of leaving their work units, leaving their employers in what was termed in China as 'jumping into the sea', and going out on their own for the first time in their lives\"  \u003cbr/\u003e34. Mid setup Su Xinping flicking through book of his prints \u003cbr/\u003e35. SOUNDBITE : (English) Brian Wallace, Director, Red Gate Gallery \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think he prefers the print making, partly because of the technical skill but also he's seen and recognises his own development over the years in the printmaking. The oil painting, I think he likes it but perhaps technically it's a little bit easy - the challenge isn't there.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e36. Close of Su Xinping looking at one of his prints in book: \"Sleeping man, departing horse\"  \u003cbr/\u003eIn China, a new wave of fashionable contemporary art has exploded onto the scene.\u003cbr/\u003eSu Xinping is at the forefront of that movement.\u003cbr/\u003eA printmaker by trade, he also produces oil paintings, which typically sell for 10 times the price of a print.  \u003cbr/\u003eTucked away in a corner of the Dongbianmen watch tower that overlooks Beijing Railway Station is the Red Gate Gallery.  \u003cbr/\u003eConstructed in 1436 during the Ming Dynasty, the 30-metre tower stood for centuries as a fortress until it was captured in 1900 by the eight-nation alliance army during the Boxer Rebellion.   \u003cbr/\u003eDecades later, Australian Brian Wallace transformed the decorative fortress into an art gallery in 1991.\u003cbr/\u003eWallace first came to China in 1986 and soon found himself organising exhibitions for young Chinese artists. \u003cbr/\u003eWallace says he has witnessed the Chinese art movement take off over the years, and today there is a booming market for contemporary artists.  \u003cbr/\u003eOne of the most famous artists on display is Su Xinping.  \u003cbr/\u003eBorn in Jining, Inner Mongolia, in 1960, Xinping served in the army for two years from 1977-79, before graduating from the Tianjin Institute of Fine Arts in 1983.  \u003cbr/\u003eIn 1989, he got a masters degree in printmaking from Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), where he is currently a Deputy Professor and Deputy Head of Printmaking.  \u003cbr/\u003eWallace first met Su Xinping in 1993 and has represented his work at the gallery many times since then.  \u003cbr/\u003eHe has featured in exhibitions all over the world and his work can be seen at the British Museum in London, as well as in galleries and museums in Australia, Japan, Germany, Finland and the U.S.  \u003cbr/\u003eXinping has been teaching for almost 20 years and can often be found supervising graduate students at CAFA, where the stone printing and wood printing studios are next door to each other.\u003cbr/\u003eHe first became known for his stone prints, or lithographs - a process which can take up to a month depending on the complexity of the picture.\u003cbr/\u003eXinping uses an oil pencil to repeatedly draw an image onto a flat German or French stone, adding more and more detail to the drawing.\u003cbr/\u003eThe oil is absorbed into the stone, and excess dirt is removed using a spirit as a cleaner.\u003cbr/\u003eInk is applied to the stone using a roller, which is washed and re-inked three times to make the image consistent throughout.\u003cbr/\u003eThe stone is then run through a press to print the image onto paper.\u003cbr/\u003eInk drawings can be done in a day if the image is simple, though colour prints are more complicated and take more time.  \u003cbr/\u003eTypically, Xinping produces 20 numbered prints of each of his works.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe stone can be reused once it is polished clean in a lengthy process using a fine sand that is ground into the block using another stone on top.  \u003cbr/\u003eSeveral of Xinping's contemporaries at CAFA are also leading printmakers in China, but Su says they were extremely careful as they developed together not to influence each other's style, saying that having the same artistic language equates to failure.  \u003cbr/\u003eThough Xinping's first love is his printmaking, Chinese artists undergo a very strict training and often have an excellent technical background, which allows them to transfer their skills to other media very easily.  \u003cbr/\u003eWhich makes Xinping's skills very marketable.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile prints tend to be more abstract, the public can associate with oil paintings more easily.  \u003cbr/\u003eIn addition, each oil painting, while often part of a series, is an original, whereas a print has 20 identical copies and so typically sell for about a tenth of the price of an oil painting.  \u003cbr/\u003eFor example, while some of Su's prints can sell for less than US $1,000, his oil painting \"Portrait\" from 2004 is valued at US $14,000 and his 2008 work \"Toast\" recently sold for US $70,000.  \u003cbr/\u003eXinping says he found it very easy to cross over to oil paintings because the basic principles were the same.\u003cbr/\u003eHowever, his specialty is his prints, which he also makes using wood.\u003cbr/\u003eIt can take up to two weeks for Xinping to carve an image onto a wooden canvas before using it on the press.\u003cbr/\u003eThe print can be pressed up to three times, with different colours added each time to give more detail to the print, though the wood is not generally cleaned between each press.  \u003cbr/\u003eMuch of his work depicts the struggles of life in Inner Mongolia, and Xinping says it was his early experiences growing up in the Mongolian grasslands that gave him his most powerful emotions, even after migrating to Beijing.  \u003cbr/\u003eHowever, he also draws inspiration from daily life, and the development of his artistic career has been closely connected with China's contemporary social issues.  \u003cbr/\u003eHis 1997 print \"Sea of Desire\" depicts how the Chinese economy had changed after the country's Reform and Opening policy and tells how people were pursuing more material things, particularly after the Tiananmen Square massacre in June of 1989.  \u003cbr/\u003eWallace says the country then experienced a sort of depression until 1991, when a social revival prompted people to go 'jumping into the sea,' and set out into the world on their own.\u003cbr/\u003eThough made in early 1989, Xinping's print \"Sleeping man, departing horse\" foreshadows the Tiananmen incident, as it was inspired by a growing tension amongst Chinese students at the time.\u003cbr/\u003eXinping considers it one of his most important works.\u003cbr/\u003eIt won several awards and was the first of his work that was truly 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