Duration: 2013.04.22 -- 2013.04.29
Location: 2nd floor exhibition hall of building 2
The “Seven Women Artists Exhibition”, which originally opened in the late eighties at the National Fine Arts Museum of China, was the first female-only painting salon in Beijing. Seven women presented their fresh talents and charming, diverse artistic styles in works full of vigor, dedication, passion, and sincerity.
As the generation of the late 50s and 60s who underwent the difficult political and economic eras of the Republic, these seven women were fortunate enough to be able to get into art academies in the late 70s and to then mature in the 80s, a special period of transition. After more than 20 long years of accumulating new life experiences and being surrounded by different art movements, amazing new trends, and complex discourses on art, these seven women, who were once the darling children in a vast and turbulent landscape, have firmly held onto their artistic ideals and understanding of humanity. Regardless of whether each stayed in the homeland or crossed the oceans, these seven women, now together again, are presenting works that exhibit their artistic strength and sincerity.
No longer the young and fragile women they once were, these seven women now have so much more appreciation and understanding of their mission and value in life. At a critical juncture of their lives when they are witnessing their own fleeting shadows in the passing of time and vicissitudes of existence, these seven women still continue to embrace life’s poetic expectations by cherishing it with utmost love and sincerity, replete with beautiful colors, gorgeous shapes, and carefully constructed aesthetic compositions. Here the intellectual, spiritual, physical, and metaphysical come together and blend; the East and the West, the ancient and the new are integrated and absorbed; nostalgia, innovation, simple and intricate coexist. The works of these seven women avoid neither the traditional and the realistic nor the new and innovative. Rather, these women persist in their individual spiritual approaches by demonstrating honorable spirits that surpass fleeting trends, and discard limiting, reductive labels.
The generation that these seven women belong to has been fascinated by the purity of aesthetics, confronted the new and challenged the old, and has searched diligently for artistic purification and cultivation of the mind. For this generation, the “dignified” aesthetic ideal exemplified by the Seven Women Artists is especially meaningful. Some of the women’s works are calm and elegant; some are based on the humanities that exude gentle poetic melodies or deep philosophical thoughts; some are simple or abstract; some convey a certain compassion and religious attention; and some are composed of both emotional and rational thinking. Irrespective of how the world and its visual appearances have changed and are changing, there have always been an internal and eternal constant in art – “passion”. This “passion” has been the hallmark of the works of the Seven Women Artists. Their art has not only interpreted the views and struggles in the material world, but has also further endeavored to preserve and manifest the soul and integrity of humanity in order to fulfill the obligation to conserve the beauty and light of life.
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