EXHIBITED:

Intimate Trend-Painting from Sichuan and Taiwan, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Jul. 4 - Sep. 7, 2008

ILLUSTRATED:

Intimate Trend-Painting from Sichuan and Taiwan, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, 2008, color illustrated, pp. 32-33

Mao Xuhui was not well in 1993. During his illness, a lot of gallipots, potions, ashtrays, pills, and scissors were put on the table. A special sensitivity to the lines and shapes made the scissors burst into the artist's sight intensively and finally became the real way out to express himself. As the artist explained, "Sometimes I also use scissors as a weird sign. I patch it into scenes of real life to express some anger and anxiety. After going through stages like this, I no longer need to think about the questions of power when painting scissors. I pay more attention to the shaping factors. The design of a pair of scissors makes a functional association, but now in my opinion, it is not important to talk about what the scissors cut, but the feelings of the design--its meaning--meanings of the shape--Not the function but the shape effects. To be precise, I'm not painting scissors but some designs of scissors." ("Reflections about the Scissors Series", 1998) .