Mao, Proust and the bamboos with Ru Xiao Fan

Mao Proust and the bamboos with Ru Xiao Fan

What do you do at Christmas? About you, I don’t know, but on the En G Majeur side we chose to open the door of a painter’s studio. Not just any one, one of those who make flower-headed Buddhas for example.

Welcome to RFI in the temple of Ru Xiao Fan, a major artist on the international art scene, graduated in Fine Arts from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Nanking and, a Maoist dictatorship later, graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. Exhibited worldwide, on display at I have a family (among 10 Chinese avant-garde artists based in France) at the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris, we will surf on its dual artistic culture, between Western pictorial language and traditional Chinese techniques. And frankly, what’s better than waking up in the middle of a bamboo forest…

Ru Xiao Fan’s musical choices

Verdi La Traviata Act I Libiamo ne’lieti calici

Sinatra jingle bells

Michael Jackson Don’t stop ’till you get enough

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