Mainland Chinese artist Zou Li’s (鄒莉) Gongbi artworks are on display in an exhibition at the Rui Cuna Foundation (FRC) gallery, with exhibitiongoers able to admire them until next Saturday.
Zou is described by a statement from the gallery as being a highly respected artist who has over 50 years of experience, having produced over a thousand works. Her art mainly focuses on themes related to the history of Chinese women.
The works on display at her latest exhibition, entitled “Burning Like a Lotus”, showcases works created between 1997 and 2022. The statement quoted Macao Friendship Association of Former Members of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Honorary President Ung Si Meng as saying that Zou has created a collection of works that showcase both the “physical and spiritual aesthetics of femininity”.
On the technique used, Gongbi (工筆), according to Wikipedia, means “tidy” in Chinese and uses “highly detailed brushstrokes that delimit details very precisely and without independent or expressive variation”. The statement also elaborated that the artform is the traditional technique of fine and delicate brush detail on Japanese rice paper or silk fabric, and on Oriental silk fans.
Zou has held over fifty solo exhibitions back home and in different parts of the world, as well as published 10 art catalogues, according to the statement, which added that the Chinese Museum of Women and Children in Beijing acquired a collection of 593 of her artworks in April last year.
– Photos: Rui Pastorin
