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Italian artist Gianni Dessi's paintings are on display. [Photo provided to China Daily]

In another shown painting, Birdcage, he draws an intricate birdcage to invite the audience to think about whether the boundary between freedom and confinement has blurred.

Dessi shows a group of blue watercolor works on paper he completed earlier this year. He says the works belong to his ongoing series, China Suite. He says he chose blue because the Yangtze River is referred to as the Blue River in Italy.

For the series, he poured blue colored water on a stack of paper and let the pigment slowly seep into it. He created this based on how natural traces are left on things by water. With this, he says he hopes to show both time and water as two generative forces of life.

According to Hegyi, Dessi gives voice to the romantics of our day by formulating dramatic visual metaphors in his works, and hails a "spiritual resistance" against emptiness and indifference.

In Mosbacher's oil paintings, he creates a poetic, sometimes puzzling feeling by portraying landscapes of a forest, a field and arrangements of tree trunks.

For example in his painting Nine Trees, he simply painted nine trees, and modeled them after real photos he had taken in forests.