Images of Women IX Exhibition @ Schoeni Art Gallery Hong Kong March 17 - April 4 2010

Zhu Yi Yong, Memory of China Series No. 25, Oil on canvas, 130 x 100, 2010

Works by Cai Lei, Chen Fei, Chen Li, Chen Yu, Fan You Rong, Hou Yan Yan, Jiang Guo Fang, Li Gui Jun, Liu Fei, Liu Hong Yuan, Mok Wai Hong, Peng Wei, Shuai Mei, Wang Yi Guang, Weng Dan Xian, Yang Gao, Yang Mian, Zhao Yi Qian, Zhu Yi Yong

Vernissage: 16 March 2011,   5:00pm - 11:59pm
Exhibition Continues: 17 March 2011 - 4 April 2011

Main Gallery, 21 - 31 Old Bailey Street, Central, Hong Kong

Schoeni Art Gallery is pleased to announce the return of our renowned serial exhibition entitled Images of Women IX on 16 March 2011, coinciding with Hong Kong’s largest charity art event the HK Artwalk 2011. The first Images of Women exhibition was held in 1995 and curated by our gallery’s founder, the late Manfred Schoeni. The exhibition had been held for 8 times over the years since its first showing. Images of Women aimed to explore the different interpretations of the female from a variety of contemporary Chinese artists. Many iconic artists of Chinese contemporary art, whether from the Realism or Avant-Garde school, have exhibited in these serial exhibitions at some point of their career, including Jiang Guo Fang, Ai Xuan, Li Gui Jun, Wang Yi Dong, Zhong Biao, Zhu Yi Yong, Qi Zhi Long and Liu Ye amongst many others. We are delighted to bring back once again the splendour and magnificence of the female form, represented artistically by some of China’s most intriguing artists, to our audience.

Throughout art history, women and the female form have always fascinated male artists, as well as female artists alike. The female protagonists in paintings have served many purposes including men’s interests, obsession, masculine desires, fantasies and anxieties, or from time to time, even gender issues and feminist concerns. The many faces of women and their characteristics such as their sensuality, sensitivity, delicate subtlety, courage and mysteriousness have continued to amuse many artists, arousing their imagination as they repeatedly attempt to portray the enigmatic spirit of this complex creature in their oeuvre.

Li Gui Jun, New Town, Oil on Canvas, 160 x 140, 2002

Peng Wei, Feather Cloth, Paper Painting Installation, 53 x 30 x 22, 2007