Posted AT 5:13 AM EDT on 28/04/08
Chinese artists painted into a corner
BEIJING — It was the maddening mobs of tourists that finally drove Fu Lei from the art studio where he had been quietly painting his quirky and surrealistic canvases for the past six years.
Back in 2002, he was one of the first Chinese artists to find refuge in the 798 district, a jumble of abandoned military factories where cheap rents and empty spaces had allowed an underground art scene to emerge.
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