Born in 1980, currently lives in Beijing and is a freelance artist.
Since childhood, he has studied calligraphy, Chinese painting and classical poetry from Mr. Zhang Gongzhe, a famous calligraphy and seal cutting artist. In 1996, he was admitted to the Middle School Attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts to study painting. Works include new meticulous paintings, sketches and digital 3D installations. Her painting style is delicate and complex, focusing on the relationship between animals, plants, nature and the human mind, revealing a unique and whimsical spiritual universe with surreal elements.
With its delicate and sensitive emotions, unique life experience, undivided focus, and whimsical imagination, it uses the traditional Chinese fine brushwork on silk, combined with art forms such as pencil sketches and 3D installations, to depict colorful, dreamlike , even with a little bohemian visual feast. By rearranging and combining people, plants and animals in a preset surreal context, a spiritual back garden of "feasible, hopeful, touristable and habitable" is created. In this fantasy world that seems virtual but can be truly felt, human existence is detached, real, and unfettered. The mutated visual communication can be regarded as Xu Linlin's other self, and it is a kind of detachment. It is a virtualized spiritual carrier that has not materialized and is visible, and it is a spiritual private land where the self communicates with all things. The seemingly innocent, romantic and dreamy images are the crystallization of Xu Linlin's thinking on complex propositions such as man and nature, tradition and contemporary, survival and destruction, self-searching and self-establishment.
