Author: MAO XUHUI 毛旭辉

Size: 130×160cm

Signed and dated: Painted in 2007

Estimate: 400,000 -600,000

Final Price: unsold

signed in Chiese and 2007（on the reverse）
LITERATURE
2014 Xiangjiang River Runing North—Collection of Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum / P82-83 / Hunan Art Press

EXHIBITED
2014 Xiangjiang to the North Tan Guobin and Chinese Contemporary Art Tan Guobin Chinese Contemporary Art Museum, Changsha

Mao Xuhui was the leader of the‘New Figurative Group’ and‘Southwest Art Research group’ in the 1980s.‘New Figurative Art’ lies between figurative art and abstract art. It’s the artist’s intuitive grasp of soul and life which presenting a‘new reality’ that is interwined by subjective and objective.
The Dream of Guishan• Sunflowe presents two main themes of Mao Xuhui’s paintings---Scissor and Guishan. Under the light blue sky is Guishan, which is red and green. Against the backdrop of a cluster of sunflowers, the artist painted the indomitable giant scissors into a bright red, as if a huge monument broke through the red earth. Scissors is a visual symbol that Mao Xuhui has been using since the early 1990s. Scissors are common tools in the life of mother and daughter, so it also carries the temperature of daily life and feelings. As for the visual characteristics of the image of scissors, Mao Xuhui once said that they are accidental creations:‘I inadvertently found that the image of scissors has a strong visual impact. With the deepening of the painting process, this unconsciousness became conscious, and the image of scissors gradually became the main image in the painting and occupied the main position’. From this perspective, we can see that the classic symbol ‘scissors’ in Mao Xuhui’s whole creative logic is actually a hybrid carrier that combines personal feelings and special ideas at the same time.