LONDON Jan. 28 (People's Daily Online)—— British artist Michael Craig-Martin CBE will present his major museum show at the Himalayas Museum in Shanghai. It will run from 3 February –31 March 2015.

This exhibition will feature 50 new paintings, each depicting ubiquitous objects of contemporary life such as a roll of toilet paper, a milk carton and a chair, as well as items of modern technology from a computer mouse and laptop to an iPhone. The works, rendered in vibrant, animated hues represent a continuation of the visual language that Craig-Martin has developed over the past 40 years as a means of interpreting the world as we experience it in the 21st-century.

He said: “When I first visited the Museum I had the idea that this exhibition should feel as contemporary as possible. Some objects, such as books, stay much the same over the years. But there are others, such as the iPhone, that did not exist a few years ago and which may disappear from daily life in only a few years. I want this exhibition to offer a picture of contemporary life as we know it today in 2015 - NOW.”

Michael Craig-Martin was born in Dublin in 1941. He moved to the United States with his family in 1945 and studied fine art at Yale University. He returned to Europe in the mid-1960s, becoming one of the key figures in the first generation of British conceptual artists.

Craig-Martin’s work is in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Gallery, London; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. He was an Artist Trustee of Tate from 1989 to 1999, received a CBE in 2001, and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2006.