Szabolcs Bozó has risen to become one of the most promising European artists of his generation with his cartoonish, playful and highly individualistic artistic style. Born in 1992 in Pécs, Hungary, Bozó first discovered his fondness of art through his grandmother’s paintings that were hung all across her attic where Bozó frequented as a child. He attributed anthropomorphic features to his imaginative world of fantastical creatures, which drew inspiration from his childhood memories: the children’s books that he read through over and over again, bedtime stories that seeped into his dreams, and animation filmstrips that his mother played for him on the old slid projector…His favourite childhood cartoon shows, comics and books have their roots in Hungarian folklore and legends - an aesthetic and cultural context that was distinctly different from their American/Western counterparts of that time - imbuing a sense of roughness, naivete and dark humour to his art. Artist Jackson Pollock once said, “Painting is self-discovery. Every good painter paints what he is." For Bozó, art is a form of spontaneous expression that springs from his personal experience: whimsical ideas were captured on the bill pads while working in the restaurant; the element of eyes that filled his paintings were inspired by the “eye” stickers on the vacuum Henry the Hoover. Those experiences allow him to develop a distinctive visual language which is free from the constraints of formal painterly composition. A break dancer in his teens, his innate understanding of the dynamic movement of the body in space and a sense of wild physical energy is explicitly apparent in the gestural and rhythmic brushstrokes in his works. The artist rolls out the canvas on the studio floor which he “dances” on using paint brushes instead of his body. Bozó further translates the spirit of street dance to his art by showing a sense of spontaneity, intimacy and freedom in his large-scale paintings. For his first museum exhibition in China, the artist has also incorporated a special character in his painting - inspired by the most beloved Chinese animation “The Monkey King” - which will be exhibited alongside the original animation designs on paper from the M WOODS collection for the first time.