Gu is perhaps the most avant-garde and radical of China’s leading contemporary artists. Although he did not formally study art, Gu quickly made a name for himself in the late 1980s with his strange, colorful portraits of alien beings and provocative experiments altering and reshaping plastics and other materials. In 1989, his work was already being shown in the Pompidou Centre in Paris. And since then this eminently uncollectible artist has bro ...