“The work of Xu De Qi, started from an existential realism, has arrived in recent years to a personal form of Chinese Pop Art of a playful and joyful rather than critical and committed as the Chinese Pop Art of the nineties.

His work is impregnated with that joy of living and that happiness for the well-being achieved in contemporary China that now claims the role that it also plays in the art world. The stereotypes of the “Super Mao” or of the happy Chinese girls, who are the main part of his work, tell just this phase of the reality of a people that is entering an essential protagonist in the international consensus. Her “Chinese Girl” and “Fish Girl” are the emblem of a newfound wellbeing and a happiness of life that trans – fers from his paintings to the soul of the spectator.