Drawing on instinct

Zhang Xi, founder of the Modern Art Museum Shanghai, connects with Su's instinctive art style. "When I look at his works, I feel his creation has a raw power rooted deeply in some part of his life," Zhang said at the salon.

"He is like Dutch artist Christiaan Karel Appel (1921-2006), who exerts his natural sensibility to the extreme and removes the cage made by rational techniques," Zhang said.

Besides painting and music, Su is also considering installation art and sculpture, as he tries to keep pushing himself forward.

"I'm not in a rush to define myself, and I care more about continuously exploring my cognition, perception and possibility. To this day, my understanding of myself is still changing," Su says.