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.


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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》。