This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Shanghai Attitude" presented by Jin Art Gallery and Shanghai Design Center. 

"Shanghai Attitude" investigates on the artistic attitude and lifestyle of various Shanghai artists, and indirectly reflects the aesthetic values and ideas behind those artistic creations. The glory of art is created by the glamour of individual personality. In this exhibition, artists are invited to ignore the often-too-heavy traditional criticism, and chat about academic topics with ease. Through self introduction and explanation, artists in Shanghai reveal their motive, stage of mind, environment and creation, and explore their creative attitude. The rich and colorful academic value and spiritual content of their work are thus manifested. It’s their life attitudes that bring out their aesthetic taste. At the same time, a lot of hot topics have been aroused in this exhibition for Chinese contemporary a rt: How should we further decipher contemporary artists and their work with multi-angle; How regionality affects Chinese contemporary art; While the world is putting emphasis on Chinese characteristics, if there’re any Shanghaist characteristics existing; What can be offered from Shanghai to the Chinese art. 

Essays by Chen Hongwei and Li Ning, as well as interviews of artists are included in the catalogue.