A modern Chinese Lacquer painting exhibition sponsored by the International Artworks Exchange Center of Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone kicked off on October 18.

A kind of painting produced with bodiless lacquerware, lacquer painting is a handicraft created in the 1960s with strong ethnical and local style, featuring attributes of both painting and carving.

According to Ye Shuixing, general director of Xiamen Lianfu Cultural Broadcast Co.,Ltd, the exhibition showcased more than one hundred lacquer works collected by Lianfu Art Museum in Xiamen, Fujian Province where bodiless lacquerware born in the Qing dynasty is called the “Three Treasures”of Chinese traditional artworks along with Beijing Cloisonne and Jingdezhen porcelain.

The exhibition works covers a wide time span with authors are of three generations. All the works depict the vastness of the Northeastern China, express local customs and practices in Southern China or carry forward the extensive and profound traditional Chinese culture.

Ye introduced that at present, as the charm and value of lacquer painting get more and more acquainted by people, the painting has entered lots of art trading markets. He hopes that in future, these paintings with “Chinese characteristics” could “go abroad”.

Since its official opening of Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, cultural trade has become a new growth point with cultural trade volume per year reaching to over RMB 30 billion yuan.