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When Miss Xiong Xiqiu was born, Mao Zedong had been dead for three years. While the dealing with the past and reflections on cultural clashes in today's China are often the focus for Chinese artists above the age of forty, this young woman represents a different style. Her pop-art compositions and gaudy colors express in our view the new life-style feeling of many young urban Chinese.
Dear Miss Xiong Xiqiu, we at artelino are happy to show your art works to a worldwide audience from North America to Europe, to Singapore and to Australia! Our best wishes for your future and your career!
Dieter and Yorie in November of 2006 (updated October 2008)
(We cannot imagine a better cure against the November blues
than one of your Summer Memories images!)
Silkscreens
We have so far received five of her works on paper. The technique is silk screen. The editions are very small - not above 9. The works are printed on rather different papers, from a kind of cardboard to laid paper. Her works are titled "Super Girl", "Cosmo Girl", "Memories of Summer", "Morning Make-up". All works are signed, dated, numbered and titled in pencil as usual.
Super Girl No. 1
For a long time we at artelino have not seen such refreshing, young, bold and a bit sassy art works. Spontaneously American pop art with its uncontested icon Any Warhol comes to our minds. And we remember a lovely comment by Helen Merrit, the great mentor of modern Japanese prints, who wrote about Hide Kawanishi: "Hues of full saturation create a cacophony of color that is distinctively characteristic ..." We are wondering what Ms. Merritt would say about Xiong Xiqiu's silkscreens?
Miss Xiong Xiqiu is probably best described as emerging Chinese avantgarde artist. Her works are unencumbered by China's political past with the rule of chairman Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution - a major topic for many of her older artist colleagues.
China's Young Generation
In our interpretation her art represents the dreams and desired life-style of the young Chinese generation that is characteristic for the current booming Chinese economy and the influx of Western culture in modern China. Her Cosmo Girls and Super Girls are like young people in California, Paris, Madrid, Hamburg, Tokyo or Sidney who like to eat ice-cream at McDonalds, to be dressed in fashionable clothes, to have a fine, sunny day at the beach in summer and a flirt in the evening. Young urban people who dream of a career with a good income, a nice home and family in suburbia and a BMW car in the garage.
This young Chinese generation has at least better chances to get what the American Constitution promises as the right to pursue happiness than those millions clad in uniforms and indoctrinated by a small red book called the Mao bible. Let's hope that China's young generation can catch it: a decent life of happiness in freedom and peace.
Art Training at Sichuan Art Academy
Miss Xiong Xiqiu was born in 1979 in Chongqing city, where the famous Sichuan Art Academy is located. In 1998, she began to study printmaking at this academy which is very strong in this art domain in China. After 4 years of studies, she continued her art research at the very same academy as a postgraduate student.
Now she finished her postgraduate's studies, and teaches art at the normal university of Chongqing. Although she is very young, she has nevertheless attended many important Chinese art exhibitions like the National Printmaking Exhibition and the Printmaking Exhibition of Etching, Lithography and Silkscreen (which is the most important exhibition for prints besides woodcuts). Miss Xiong Xiqiu has won several prizes.
The young artist was admitted for the 17th National Print Exhibition of China in 2005 - the top event for printmakers in China.
Exhibitions
- 2001 - 1st Chinese Silkscreen Exhibition in Beijing. The artwork "My Left and His Left" won the outstanding prize.
- 2001 - The silkscreen "Breeze and Drizzle" was selected for the 7th Chinese Printmaking Exhibition of Etching, Lithography, and Silkscreen in Wuhan city.
- 2002 - The artwork "Morning Make-up" won the outstanding prize in the first Postgraduates' Artwork Exhibition of Sichuan Art Academy.
- 2002 - The artworks "Morning Make-up" and "This Summer - Blue Sea" were exhibited at the 5th International Print Exhibition in Kochi, Japan.
- 2003 - Miss Xiong Xiqiu attended the 8th Printmaking Exhibition of Etching, Lithography, and Silkscreen in Chongqing. The artwork "Memories of Summer I" won the outstanding prize.
- 2004 - Works of the artist were shown at the exhibition "Everybody·Love: Paper Artworks Exhibition and New Vision Printmaking Exhibition", Chongqing.
- 2004 - The artist attended the exhibition "Seems Close or Seems Far Away", in Chongqing.
- 2005 - Miss Xiong Xiqiu attended the exhibition "Foreplay" - Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tank-Loft Art Center, Chongqing.
- 2005 - The artwork "Super Girl No.1" was selected for the 17th National Print Exhibition, in Guiyang.
- 2006 - An exhibition of two artists named "Rebels against Printmaking: Yang Yong & Xiong Xiqiu Artworks Exhibition", was held in Sensation Art Space, Chongqing.
- 2006 - Printmakers Exhibition of 8, named "7+1", in 3818 Art Gallery in Beijing.
- 2006 - Exhibition "Sky·Color" of Chinese young artists' artworks.
- 2008 - 7th Shanghai Art Biennial in Shanghai.
- 2008 - 2nd Contemporary Young Female Artists Invitational Exhibition, Chongqing Art Gallery, China.
- 2008 - "2008 New Year China Print Art Festival" in Beijing, China.
- 2008 - 13th Taiwan International Print Biennial, Taiwan.
Literature Reference
- "17. National Print Exhibition of China" (official catalog)., ISBN 7-221-07186-1/J.384, Official catalog of the 17th National Print Exhibition in China, page 101.
- Helen Merritt, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints - The early years", published by University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1990, ISBN 0-8248-1200-X.
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