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Lot Essay
As one of the representative members of the artist organization N12, Xu Hualing portrays her unique style with her ink paintings. Between No.38 (Lot 49) continues her interest in feminist issues through the creative combination of photography and Gong Bi techniques. She uses advanced inkjet print in composing an image of everyday life on rice paper. She also applies the Chinese traditional framing method to glue painted silk onto the rice paper, thus inaugurating a completely different visual experience. Her works are regarded as harmonic combination of sensual reconstruction and visual renovation.
Influenced by the black and white photography, the artist partially retains the figure to eliminate its distinctiveness and individualism to achieve a relatively general image. Xu Hualing picks the ink and watercolours but disposes of traditional Chinese painting techniques such as outlining and planarisation and colour blocking. She also applies the "boneless" method of washes to diminish lines and colour saturation, transforming the style of heavy colours into a compositional brightness and coherence. The sheer texture of the semi-transparent silk offers a soft and feminine touch to the artwork. The use of materials fully accommodates the concept and purpose of her creation, embodying a new interpretation of Gongbi in contemporary art.
Born in 1975, Harbin China. Xu Hualing graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing in 2000, and received her master's degree in 2003. Major solo exhibitions of the artists include Eternal Beauty, DF2 Gallery L.A, United States and F2 Gallery, Beijing (2007) and Xu Hualing-Swords Girl , Kohler Muller Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland (2008). Xu Hualing also participated in many group exhibitions such as Pink Paintings-Female Ink Art in Contemporary Context, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, China (2009)F Special Exhibition of China's Experimental Ink Art, Chinese Culture Center, Tokyo, Japan (2011); and Philosophical Interpretations of Painting -The Exhibition of Contemporary Gongbi Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2013). She is now teaching at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
Influenced by the black and white photography, the artist partially retains the figure to eliminate its distinctiveness and individualism to achieve a relatively general image. Xu Hualing picks the ink and watercolours but disposes of traditional Chinese painting techniques such as outlining and planarisation and colour blocking. She also applies the "boneless" method of washes to diminish lines and colour saturation, transforming the style of heavy colours into a compositional brightness and coherence. The sheer texture of the semi-transparent silk offers a soft and feminine touch to the artwork. The use of materials fully accommodates the concept and purpose of her creation, embodying a new interpretation of Gongbi in contemporary art.
Born in 1975, Harbin China. Xu Hualing graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing in 2000, and received her master's degree in 2003. Major solo exhibitions of the artists include Eternal Beauty, DF2 Gallery L.A, United States and F2 Gallery, Beijing (2007) and Xu Hualing-Swords Girl , Kohler Muller Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland (2008). Xu Hualing also participated in many group exhibitions such as Pink Paintings-Female Ink Art in Contemporary Context, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, China (2009)F Special Exhibition of China's Experimental Ink Art, Chinese Culture Center, Tokyo, Japan (2011); and Philosophical Interpretations of Painting -The Exhibition of Contemporary Gongbi Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2013). She is now teaching at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.