Since Chinese pop-artist Jiji created his trademark "Grumpy Panda" character in 2000 he has been drawing attention from the globe’s tastemakers-today his fans include Anna Wintour, Pharrell Williams and Kanye West, who were all in attendance at his latest exhibition at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo. His monochromatic muse - who is obsessively reproduced across his painted and sculptural works, as well as in his Hello Panda fashion line-is conceived as a symbol of Chinese youth, a stubborn generation growing up with radically different values to their forbears. Today we present brand new artwork from Jiji accompanied by "The Light of Shanghai" - a collaborative track by Shanghai hip hop crews Dogg Tribe, DBG Represent and TBC, selected by Jiji from his 2008 compilation for his record label, Hi Music.
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