I SAW HAPPINESS (YOUTH GREEN)

Jing Xiang/ 向京

1968-

26.0*28.0*26.0cm, sculpture, FRP paint

Copyright : Jing Xiang

Jing Xiang is one of the most outstanding female sculpture artists in contemporary China. This cute rabbit girl is full of happy expression. Her slightly closed eyes, pouted cherry mouth and slightly tilted crooked ears make people laugh. Xiang's series of works have a strong sense of mission of caring for weak life. Her eyes are sensitive, keen and compassionate. She can always let people who love and appreciate her works bring themselves into the role and produce more emotional resonance in the process of spontaneous and involuntary participation.

The rabbit girl who came from the age of innocence, you asked her what she saw, and she said, "I saw happiness.". You must believe her, because her face is quieter than us. She has all the colors of flowers. She has a dream dress. She said she smelled the fragrance of flowers in the bustling traffic.

The human bodies in Xiang seem to be immersed in their own world, neither looking at us nor staring at each other. This introspective temperament comes from the complexity and a large number of hard manual operations required by each of her works. These highly accurate manual techniques and the artist's grasp and reproduction of the instinct and intuition of the female human body ensure the exquisite artistic level and spiritual expression of the works. Works usually go through a series of procedures such as mud manuscript shaping, casting, polishing and painting, so the specific works gradually show the characteristics of personalized narration and non-authenticity in this process. A large part of this contradictory feeling comes from the materials selected by the artist. It not only has the ability of high realism, but also can not completely imitate the real life objects.

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