Forever Tomorrow
Chinese Art Now

Forever Tomorrow: Chinese Art Now explores the groundbreaking world of Chinese contemporary art with standout sculpture, photography, digital works and more. The exhibition resonates with our times, exploring themes of rapid change and societal shifts. 

Spanning decades of artistic exchange since China’s Reform and Opening Up in 1978, the exhibition offers a captivating look at how a new generation of Chinese artists have responded to the seismic shifts in society – transitioning from rural to urban, traditional to modern, and industrial to global powerhouse.

The exhibition features a powerful selection of works from international heavyweights including Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Xu Zhen and Yang Fudong, alongside stunning pieces by cutting-edge artists making their New Zealand debut, including Lu Yang, Zhang Peili and 2024 Sigg Prize Winner Wang Tuo.

Produced for Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Forever Tomorrow: Chinese Art Now is an exhibition catalogue that pairs refined material choices with disciplined print execution.

The cover is offset printed onto 125gsm Wibalin Buckram, finished with a debossed title that sits directly within the cloth texture, giving the book a tactile, archival quality. Internally, 100gsm Polar Offset provides a clean, stable surface for reproducing a wide range of artworks, from sculpture and photography through to digital media.

A standout detail is the blended colour endpapers, printed on 150gsm matt stock. The gradient is rendered with exceptional smoothness, no visible banding, demonstrating tight control across ink laydown and press calibration, and adding a subtle but highly resolved visual transition at the opening and close.

The book is section sewn by Bookbinding Press, ensuring durability and longevity appropriate for a gallery publication, and printed in Aotearoa New Zealand to maintain close control over colour fidelity and finish.