This interview was conducted at Mao Xuhui's home in Kunming on 17 September 2009. 

Biography:
Mao Xuhui (b. 1956, Chongqing) is an artist who currently lives in Kunming and teaches at the Yunnan Academy of Art and Design.

Mao graduated from the Oil Painting Department at the Yunnan Academy of Fine Arts in 1982 and became the art director of a film company in Kunming.

Mao, along with Zhang Xiaogang, Hou Wenyi, Zhang Long, Pan Dehai and others, organized one of the first self-funded exhibitions in China, titled the ‘New Concrete Image' (Shanghai, 1985). This exhibition was later shown in Nanjing, Kunming and Chongqing, with the inclusion of additional works by young artists from the southwestern region. In 1986, Mao introduced the works of artists from the southwestern region at the ‘Large-Scale Slide Exhibition of ’85 New Wave Art’ at the 1986 Zhuhai Conference, and with Pan Dehai, Zhang Xiaogang and Ye Yongqing, formed the Southwestern Art Research Group. Works by Mao, Pan, Zhang, and Ye were shown at the ‘China/Avant-Garde Exhibition’ in Beijing (National Art Museum of China, 1989).

Mao continues to work as an artist and exhibits widely.


簡歷︰

毛旭輝,1956年生於重慶。藝術家,現居昆明,任教於雲南大學藝術與設計學院。

1982年畢業於雲南藝術學院美術系油畫專業,後於昆明市電影公司任美術師。1985年,毛旭輝與朋友張曉剛、潘德海,及在上海的候文怡、張隆等合作,自費在上海舉辦了第一次《新具象》展。此展覽後來在南京、昆明及重慶展出,加入了其他在西南地區從事現代藝術創作的青年藝術家。
 
1986年,毛旭輝參加「珠海會議」幻燈交流會,介紹西南地區的現代藝術。其後,他與潘德海、張曉剛、葉永青組成了「西南藝術家研究群體」;1989年,四人參加了在北京舉行的《中國現代藝術展》。

Context

In 2006, Asia Art Archive began a focused archiving project called 'Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990'. This project aimed at developing a comprehensive collection of primary research materials including books, periodicals, newspapers, exhibition brochures, invitations, video recordings, correspondence, and other relevant documents. 

As part of this project, AAA digitised more than 80,000 items of material from personal archives to include artists Mao Xuhui, Wu Shanzhuan, Zhang Xiaogang, and Zhang Peili; curators and critics Fei Dawei, Lu Peng, and Zheng Shengtian; as well as the archives of Tokyo Art Gallery. As part of the research process over 75 in-depth interviews with key artists, curators, and critics were conducted. From a portion of these interviews, AAA created a documentary film about experimental art in South China (Guangzhou) in the 1980s entitled From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Contemporary Cantonese Art in the 1980s.

AAA’s 1980s archiving project culminated with the launch of a comprehensive website portal called www.china1980s.org in September 2010.

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Interview: Mao Xuhui (English subtitles)