As with the works in his first one-man show held in 1994, the paintings presented in this catalogue of Zhu Wei’s second solo exhibition continue to offer the artist’s vision of contemporary life and society in China as they exist in his mind. The contributors remark on the artist’s reclusive lifestyle and the choice of using ink as the medium, which lend a measure of subtlety to the sarcastic symbols and protest messages apparent in his works. Zhu is further compared to the traditional Chinese scholar who bears the Confucian virtue of moral obligation, as exemplified in Zhu’s description of himself as someone ‘with a strong craving for sacred purity and a love of a good time, but, who deep inside harbours an aspiration to build a new, idealistic world.’ This catalogue includes a biography of the artist.

本圖錄收錄的是朱偉第二次個展的作品，但和他1994年首次個展的作品相比，可見畫家仍在嘗試表達自己對中國當代生活與社會的觀感。多名評論者均提到朱偉性喜離群獨居，而且對水墨情有獨鍾，這些特質使他作品中明顯的諷刺意味和抗議訊息更顯得意味深長。更有人將朱偉形容為一個具有儒家美德的傳統文人，據朱偉自述，他充滿着「對聖潔的願望」、「對美好時光的愛戀」，但「外在的粗莽中懷揣着內在的美好」和「重建新理想主義的世界的神聖願望」。本圖錄亦載有藝術家的簡歷。