”Experimental Painting Manual” showcases the work of three contemporary Chinese artists over three floors, a floor for each artist. The ground floor is for Chongqing-born Wang Jun’s tranquil black, grey and white canvases. Almost abstract in execution, Wang’s pieces depict doors, walls, vents and brickwork. They are the calm before the storm of color and imagery that awaits upstairs, showing that Chinese contemporary art is far more diverse than many critics would postulate.

Huang Yishan’s gruesome mixed media works on the second floor are a shock to the system. Wang Jun’s quiet monochromes contrast with Huang’s striking images: a naked man being chopped in half by a surgeon in a macabre re-enactment of a magic show, a woman cutting a man’s throat as he struggles on a table and a man shaving ribbons of meat from a cow’s side. Each painting shows a room, and each room is divided into a tiled floor with a detailed pattern, a block-color wall at the top and more tiling in between.

Most meaningful are the pieces you come to last–a studio drenched in blood with the artist peering in through the door. Here Huang expresses art as pain and artistic expression as the letting of blood. More subversively, it's also a veiled dig at the commercialization of the art world. Born in Guangdong in 1983, Huang is the youngest artist in the show, but his work lacks the naïveté typical of less experienced painters.

The top floor is dedicated to oil paintings by Shen Liang. Born in 1976 in Liaoning, Shen has displayed in New York and Frankfurt as well as Beijing and Shanghai. His rebellious streak manifests itself in the scratches and marks he makes on his paintings once they’re complete (look for irreverent placements of his signature in the middle of a piece and for beacons of modern culture like the words “Gucci” and “iPod”). Shen believes that vandalizing one’s own art is liberating, relaxing and–most interestingly–anti-establishment. Most of his oil paintings feature propaganda images and scenes from classical painting reworked with messily placed daubs of paint. The further you stand away the more realistic they look.

Note: Today is the last day of of this exhibit, but you can head to the FEIZI Gallery Mon-Sun 11am-7pm to check out other cool contemporary Chinese art.