Revolution in Tradition is a pioneering exhibition aimed at showcasing the exciting developments in Chinese art and its connection to the long tradition of ink painting to the European community. The exhibition demonstrates how a group of important artists have, over the past decades, been highly active in developing, conceptually innovating, and even subverting the legacy of Chinese painting. Shang Yang (b. 1942), Gu Wenda (b.1955), Qiu Zhijie (b. 1969), Hao Shiming (b. 1977), and Ni Youyu (b. 1984)—each of these artists has left his distinctive mark in the evolution of Chinese ink art by incorporating aesthetic and philosophical sensibilities of Chinese artistic traditions into a new and more international discourse. These new revolutionary ideas in "ink" will provoke the viewer into a reconsideration of the conventions underlying traditional art forms, and to confront the cultural implications of those conventions. Revolution in Tradition explores the immense contemporary creative possibilities of conceptual ink art and for many participating artists, is their first presentation in France.