About Yongbo Zhao

Yongbo Zhao's images are drastic, shocking, voyeuristic if you look at them briefly.
At second glance, you can see a profound sarcasm, pure irony and anarchic humor in the exuberant wealth of motifs.

With an incomparable painterly brilliance, Zhao takes up the themes of the Old Masters, develops them further, connects them with the history and myths of China and thereby creates a new, fantastic world of images.
It is his answer to political systems and social conditions in East and West, which themselves often take on grotesque features.

Annette von Altenbockhum