Zhou Jirong (b. 1962), Beijing No. 8 (2/15) Print-multiple, silkscreen Signed in both Chinese and English by the artist (lower right) Dated 1992 94 cm x 67 cm. Provenance: private collection NSW Zhou Jirong, born in Guizhou province, is a contemporary Chinese print artist, and deputy head of department of printmaking in the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Having numerous group and solo exhibitions around the world, his Beijing series is probably the best known of all his works. Depicting various scenes of corners, alley ways and common people of the city, Zhou captures a nostalgic sentiment towards a city that has been going through dramatic changes and modernisation, and a part of it that has been drastically disappearing and diminishing. No. 8 (2/15)1992 Zhou Jirong1992 1962