Lacquer

Su Xiaobai's Venice exhibition melds Chinese lacquer with European abstraction

Lacquer paintings by the Chinese-German artist, whose foundation launches a curatorial residency in Shanghai this year, go on display at a collateral biennale event in a 15th century palazzo

Illuminating lacquer maker Onishi Isao, one of Japan's Living National Treasures

“The beauty is in the process and the final object is the sum of the path"