Young British artist debuts at Caochangdi's Art Mia Gallery

British artists are not regular visitors to Beijing's art scene, let alone younger artists. However, Conrad Shawcross is changing this by showcasing his art work at Caochangdi's Art Mia Gallery. His first solo exhibition in Asia, Geometry of the Mind features a series of his installation works including major kinetic work Limit of Everything. Shawcross' works have been collected by the Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, Tate and The Arts Council of England.

The 1977-born London-based artist has stated that he hopes to reveal a unique kind of sculptural investigation into the principals of scientific theory and natural science through these works. Inspired by music, the drawing works at the show are visual representations of the mathematics of classical music's major 3rd. Here the artist transforms the nature of sound into visual form with a drawing machine.

The main exhibit, Limit of Everything (5:4) creates a certain element of suspense with its precise engineering and rotating arms. While in a separate dark room the artist's special-made Slow Arc in a Cube VIII stresses the relationship between space and how space is perceived by using intense light sources from inside the steel work project to create moving shadow forms across the walls.

The exhibition is scheduled to end on August 24.