Art has the privilege of being intercultural. Art is an underlying universal principle of human creation. Art connects cultures. Art is a language that everyone understands. And this is made clear to us again and again precisely by those who wander between the different cultures. Xiaobai Su is one of these wanderers. Their function is to build a bridge between the cultures inasmuch as the works of art they create bring out what is different and what is shared in our cultures. Even if, as in the case of Xiaobai Su, their artistic language is abstract - showing no recognizable structures or shapes and refusing to represent our everyday worlds - it speaks directly to our feelings, sparks associations in our mind, shows us our past, and plays with the idea of our future. It sings within us like music, with lyrics in red and ochre, in black and crimson, in every variation of rust red, in matt green and mellow brown. The powerful earthy colors and the physicality of his paintings were stunning.

Xiaobai Su leads us to a world full of poetry. Yet this is not the poetry of words. No sounds are strung together to form an utterance. Rather, it is the emotions of the colors that pulsate within us; it is the structural patterns of the surfaces that move us; it is the materials that are alive. We see the poetry, we feel the poetry. Words are not needed, for art needs no words. It is pure poetry. Xiaobai Su has understood this and - without words – he fulfils his function of conveying a sense of belonging and grace, earth and heaven, strength and love. He brings this closer to us with and in his pictures. His story fuses with ours, becoming a universal experience full of passion and dynamism. (an excerpt from Prof. Sabine Langen-Crasemann, "The Poetry of the Pictures", Xiaobai Su Die Dynastie Der Farben, ZDF and Langen Foundation, 2009/2010, p. 11)

His art works present another major highlight in the ongoing artistic dialogue between East and West. This exchange is expressed in Xiaobai Su's attempt to create a universal language of form and color through his intensively colorful abstract paintings. In his unique way, Xiaobai Su succeeds in fusing color and material to form a multi-layered and thus highly suggestive composition. His work allows very different approaches in terms of culture and history to interact and flow into each other. Indeed, in an age of globalization this open dialogue is exactly what we want - in art and beyond - for the sake of all our futures. (an excerpt from Prof. Mark Schachter, "Mediator from the Middle Kindom", Xiaobai Su Die Dynastie Der Farben, ZDF and Langen Foundation, 2009/2010, p. 9)