Exhibition Poster
Exhibition Name: Ming Tranquillity
Exhibition Period：2024.9.1-9.9
Venue: Bridge Art Space
Curator: Zhao Fazhi
Artists：Chen Xiaojing Cui Mingxii He Siwei Lu Xin'er Luo Jingjing Mei Lingxue Qiao Muzi Wang Yining Eileen Cheng
Organisers: Bridge Art Space, R+Production, Yucheng Society
The name ‘Ming Tranquility’ is a Chinese word that originally means bright and beautiful. In ‘Xie's Pond Pavilion’ by Feng Xiuying of the Qing Dynasty, there is a poem that reads, ‘The two maids play a song on the zither, and the bright tranquillity can also be heard.’
In this exhibition, we are honoured to invite nine outstanding female contemporary artists, who use their own artistic language to interpret their perception of the world, their thoughts on life, and their insights into human nature.
They come from different backgrounds and have different life experiences, but they are on the same path in art. They use paintbrushes, images and other forms of art to break the boundaries of tradition and challenge the established concepts. In their works, we can see the intertwining of toughness and tenderness, the fusion of strength and delicacy.
Some artists use bold colours and exaggerated lines to express their inner passions and conflicts; others use delicate brushstrokes and subtle tones to create a serene and far-reaching mood. Some show the diversity and complexity of society through capturing real life; others delve into the inner world and explore the mysteries of human emotions.
This exhibition is not only a feast of art, but also a tribute to women's creativity and artistic achievements. It shows us that female artists occupy an indispensable position in the field of contemporary art, and their works open a window to a different world, allowing us to appreciate the beauty and at the same time provoking deep thoughts about life, humanity and the future.
Chen Xiaojing ‘what can i do’ Oil on canvas 80x65cm 2022
Born in Chongqing in 1990, XiaoJing Chen graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. Since the 1990s, she has gradually built up her own judgement, choosing to bypass too much attention to events, spatial collisions or interactive subtlety in her artistic creations in favour of simple expressions of self-consciousness. Chen Xiaojing has always had a preference for flatness in her paintings, and in order to achieve the desired effect on the subject and the object, she coordinates the relationship through the complementary use of hues and colours, without intentionally exaggerating phenomena and unnecessary feelings. She believes that painting is a way to create interesting and vivid entities, and to record moments of truth and spirituality.
Cui MingXi You Are My Mountains and Rivers Oil on Canvas 70×94cm2024
MingXi Cui graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and is an art creator, brand manager and space designer. She seeks to create works that break the boundaries of tradition and express power and emotion through unique visual language. Cui Mingxi is good at capturing the beauty of the moment, focusing on the expression of colours and lines, and her works include oil paintings, coloured pencils, photographs, and the design and planning of art spaces. The main series of her current works include mountains, water, landscapes and surrealism. Through these works, she hopes to have a dialogue with more people in the world and share her perspectives.
SiWei He ‘Harvest’ Colour on paper 68x68cm2023
SiWei He was born in 1994 in Shenzhen, China. She graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Chinese Painting, majoring in Bird and Flower Painting, under the tutelage of Mr Mei Zhongzhi, and now lives and works in Hangzhou, China. SiWei He's meta-intention in her works is to imagine the beginning of the world, showing a lonely, pure, yet vital side of the world.
Cena Lu ‘Untitled 2.’ C-print 2018
Cena Lu ‘Untitled 2.’ C-print 2018
Cena Lu is an architect, photographer, and researcher currently living and working in Guangzhou. She graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York, majoring in Architectural Design. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Master's Degree in Architectural Design. After graduation, she founded Luhu 300 Art Complex in Guangzhou, which is dedicated to the research and development of contemporary art-related industries. Her design and research revolve around architecture, photography, and theories of light and space. Her personal photo book ‘Threshold’ has been published in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and overseas bookstores. Combining architecture and photography, she has dared to break away from the traditional way of exhibition and has organised many solo exhibitions, which have gained the attention of the local media and industry.
LUO Jingjing ‘Leaning on the Gate and Watching the
Bamboo Virgo’ Oil on canvas 60x90cm2023
LENA LUO, a trendy artist, pop artist and founder of the original IP Bunny, specialising in IP excavation and incubation, learnt to paint at the age of 10, and studied in the UK and took courses related to THE STAINED GLASS. In her art creation, she wants to abandon her own understanding of art, and pursue a pure way to create art, without any influence from the outside world. As a result, she has created the image of the simple, happy, independent and brave ‘Bugs Bunny’.
Mei LingXue ‘Escape in the Cloud’ Acrylic on canvas 136x106cm 2023
LingXue Mei, born in 1982, is a professional artist who explores the power of lines to give the plane of painting the speed of time and space. The twelve astrological houses are not only mythological metaphors but also a summary of various social activities by the prophets. Twelve personalities have evolved very different preferences and conflicts, and we believe that the astrological prophecies are in fact curiosity and fascination about one's own behaviours, and by cutting into the contemporary life and intercepting the characteristics of human beings, the theme will convey to the viewer a reflection on human beings.
QIAO Mu⼦ ‘Human Diary in 2077’ Generative art Dimensions variable 2024
QIAO_MUZI graduated from the University of the Arts London, UK, and is a young artist. He specialises in interdisciplinary and multi-media art, with themes exploring the boundaries, transformations and weightings of current and future forms of human vitality, art and technology, and the virtual and physical worlds. His original ‘organic psychedelic’ visual art style presents an avant-garde, unique and unforgettable overall picture, and he seeks to explore an artistic style that is in line with the aesthetic interests of contemporary youth in the context of globalisation, as well as the need to pass on China's unique visual lineage.
YiNing Wang ‘Fable’ Oil on canvas 150x90cm 2018
YiNing Wang is a post-90s professional artist with a Bachelor's degree from Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, and studied at the Advanced Training Programme of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2018. She has held exhibitions in Japan, Hong Kong, Moscow, Beijing, Shanghai, etc. She started painting at the age of 6, and is currently running her own art studio. Through continuous creation, exhibitions and cross-border co-operation, she tries to use the context of art to awaken the people's weakening awareness of the fundamentals of culture and human being in this materialistic era.
Eileen Cheng ‘The Ancient People in this Moon -
The Story of Cultural Relics (One)’ Digital Prints 86 x 63 cm 2020
Eileen Zheng (JiubiZheng), graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) with undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, is currently a teacher of the Fifth Studio of the Printmaking Department of CAFA. MFA in Illustration, School of Visual Arts, New York. She is the illustrator of the books ‘Six Thousand Years of Fang - The Story of Cultural Relics’, ‘Grandpa Liu Xinwu Tells the Dream of Red Mansions’, and ‘Penguin Calendar 2021’. His works have been exhibited at the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Imperial Temple, Art Plus Gallery in Shanghai, Anderson Contemporary Art Museum in New York, and Sacred Space Gallery in Princeton, USA. Her work ‘My Little Dinosaur’ won the ‘ADC YOUNG ONES 2021’ Award of Excellence.
In Eileen Cheng's eyes, Chinese and Western art are not as diametrically opposed to each other as the last two generations have said, and similarly, Chinese traditional art is not unfathomable. Her paintings borrow many of the mother themes of Chinese cultural relics. The works on display are the series of ‘Ancient People of Today's Moon’, she tries to see all the flowers and trees of Chang'an with the eyes of the people in the paintings, and touch the trousseau and huzha of the other time with the hands of the people in the paintings ...... tries to prove that they share the same joys, anger and sorrows as we do. Between these emotions, the time is also quietly hidden into the dust of history.
Group photo of some guests
