Art beat in May

Zeng Hongjie's colors

Zeng Hongjie's solo exhibition, called Profound Image, Endless Image, displays about 20 oil paintings. Zeng, a woman painter, born in 1969, tries to combine the Western abstract style with Chinese traditional painting. Zeng uses the mixing of colors to display profound landscape images.

9 am-5 pm, closed on Mondays, until May 23. Fu Ze Nan Art Gallery, Songzhuang Art Zone, drive along Jingtong Highway and then Tongyan Highway until the Songzhuang exit. Leave the exit and turn left after 100 meters. Songzhang Art Zone is 3 kilometers ahead. 153-1202-6630 (Chinese), 189-1016-0910 (English).

Chopin at 80

To still be playing Frederic Francois Chopin's compositions at the age of 80 has been a longtime wish for established Chinese pianist Fou Tsong (pictured). On May 23, he will fulfill his dream at a piano recital by playing Chopin's 12 Etudes op 10. Fou first studied piano with Mario Paci, the Italian founder of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and won the special Mazurka Prize at the 1955 International Chopin Piano Competition. He once said that playing the Polish composer's music is his destiny. He will also perform compositions by Mozart at the concert, including Minuet in D Major.

7:30 pm, May 23. Forbidden City Concert Hall, inside Zhongshan Park, West of Tian'anmen Square, Xicheng district, Beijing. 010-6559-8285.

-Chen Nan