In 2003, a new art movement started by a group of digital artists in Norway and they called their paintings which were painted on computer with the help of software Digital Paintings and their art movement - Digitalism. All the paintings shown here by Renming Cheng and partners are Digital Paintings. Cheng is one of the first artists to launch Digital Painting and had his one man exhibition in a public cultural center in 2003 where more than 40 Digital Paintings were shown to the public. Since then he and others in the new digital art movement have been active in Europe and their motive is to change the landscape of art in Europe. 

Cheng is a Chinese artist living in Norway. Having worked as businessman, journalist, teacher, guide, business consultant, freelance writer, and finally artist, he always finds the environment hostile and life challenging. Cheng separated 3 times and reunited 3 times with the same wife and finally divorced; he was unemployed for many years in Norway after 11 years of university education; he thought about committing suicide twice.

Three weeks after becoming a born-again Christian, Cheng got a job at a high school. He had never studied art before but all of a sudden he started to have art exhibitions in Norway and England, including twice at the prestigious Oslo City Hall Gallery. In summer 2009, it was the first time for Cheng to apply to the most important art exhibition in Norway, - The Autumn Exhibition, and he was chosen as one of the 140 artists candidates from 1750 artists and their 4500 artwork by the First Jury.  This was considered an achievement. In November 2009, Cheng's painting will be shown in the Salon D'automne in Paris. 'Looking back, I have but one regret: I should have known Jesus much earlier. Now life presents itself as meaningful and fascinating.' 

Renming Cheng and partners invite digital artists with the same motivation to join them in the new art movement - Digitalism, in which they will use Digital Paintings like these shown here to dedicate to the 21st century, and to pronounce the death of Nihilism in fine art whose skeleton has been struggling to resist being put to rest in its grave. Forever resorting to the same old pretension in emptiness, nothingness and darkness as their motto, contemporary Nihilism has been taking away creativity from art and gives its place to meaninglessness, driven by run-away ego and a desire for making money in a fast way while being incapable to show anything fresh. 

'Dadaism has a reason: the disappointment and disillusionment of the First World War; Post-modernism has a reason: it is the result of the fascination over the liberation from the Second World War and the huge transition in culture and lifestyle. But the contemporary Nihilism has no reason whatsoever hanging on to its coffin. It doen's have anything more to say. It has been kicking and screaming to the public: Whatever trash we throw at your face to shock you and provoke you is great art! 

'With Digitalism and Digital Paintings, we have the courage to respond: It is not! 

'We want to give art back to the public with the richness it deserves, not what it disgusts. We want to give art back to the public so that it will decide what art is, not an art that is dictated by a privileged few.'