Survival Experience

In this interview, Mao Xu-Hui, important participant of ’85 New Wave, primary organizer of New Figurative Movement and Southwest Art Research Group, talks about the essential reason for his consecutive experiments and change of painting languages since the beginning of his artistic creation in 1973. That is to respect history, to respect individual survival experience, and to respect art.

Mao Xu-Hui interviewed by Lin Shan-Wen

Mao Xu-Hui, Parents’ Dusk—Lonely Island No. 3, 2006. Oil on canvas, 120 x 145 cm. Courtesy of Art Today.

In this interview, Mao Xu-Hui, important participant of ’85 New Wave, primary organizer of New Figurative Movement and Southwest Art Research Group, talks about the essential reason for his consecutive experiments and change of painting languages since the beginning of his artistic creation in 1973. That is to respect history, to respect individual survival experience, and to respect art.