Art is the lifeblood of fashion and design.
It is the alternation of expressions and different interpretations of life, revealed in the works of contemporary Chinese artists, that intrigues and fascinates me!
There is the blue color with which Qian Wu paints labyrinthine skies, metaphors of great emotional tension. And then the intense red of Chen Wenling‘s Red Memories statuettes, stylizing every human state of mind. The color of passion also dresses Xiao Lu, when in the image that concludes the well-known photographic sequence of Tides, she resists the overwhelming waters of the high tide.
Chromatisms emphasized in the creations of Zhang Hong Mei who revisits the age-old art of cut-out paper, mixed with fragments of recolored fabrics, while decidedly fluorescent hues of the modern metropolises painted by Xu De Qi overlap with traditional landscapes, euphorically revealing a challenge weather. Provocation accredited by Song Yongping‘s works depicting money, as a philosophical and sociological thought of our era.
Ma Yuan was a refined interpreter of Zen philosophy, using the precious relics of the civilization of past dynasties as a model.
Xing Junqin with his artistic dissimulations, through the use of military camouflage to exorcise the violence that surrounds us.
Luo Zhi Yi with his abstract visions amazes with the exasperated realism of the small details, which make the spaces painted on the canvases three-dimensional.
