Some of China's best artists to emerge in recent years have studied at the Sichuan Fine Art Institute in Chongqing. Xu Zhenbang - a 26-year-old currently completing his postgraduate studies at the institute - is one of the latest to come to light. In his new solo exhibition at Pékin Fine Arts, he presents a series of intriguing paintings.

Following artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, Xu takes everyday objects, signs and patterns and technically manipulates and distorts the images. But the Shenzhen-born artist stretches Warhol's screen-printing techniques into our computer-slick world to add text and distort familiar objects. In some paintings the output of a laser print is laid atop the canvas; in others the artist paints his carefully planned distorted designs.

In , Xu presents the well-known red, white and blue bag pattern as a fragmented and manipulated image of the Great Wall as a landscape. In another work, the image of a Phoenix is depicted swirling as if dissolved in acid across a canvas of universally familiar black-and-yellow directional road signs.