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Rare portraits by Chinese artist go on show

By Zhang Kun in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2018-07-21 01:34
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A picture taken by Wang Xiao Hui of British legendary actress Audrey Hepburn in 1992. provided to China Daily

Fifty-four photos by Chinese artist Wang Xiao Hui, including her two portraits of legendary actress Audrey Hepburn, are currently on display at 503 BEA building at Lujiazui in Shanghai till Aug 9.

Wang is an international award-winning artist, author and professor with Tongji University who splits her time between Shanghai and Munich. The ongoing exhibition features her most iconic works over the past decades. All the portrait images on display are being showcased for the first time.

The portraits of Hepburn were taken in Munich in 1992, one year before the film star died. Wang was then studying filmmaking in the German city. The British actress is the only celebrity Wang has ever photographed.

"In 1992, the Chinese film Ju Dou was featured at an international film event in Munich, and the director couldn't make the trip to Germany," recalled Wang, who ended up being the representative from the Chinese film industry to introduce the film on German TV.

"I loved her for her striking beauty inside and out, unhampered by wrinkles or other signs of aging. To me she was not a goddess but more like an angel." Wang Xiao Hui, internationally renowned Chinese artist

"It was at that occasion that I was introduced to Audrey Hepburn, and a mutual friend recommended me to take pictures of her. I loved her for her striking beauty inside and out, unhampered by wrinkles or other signs of aging. To me she was not a goddess but more like an angel," she added.

Wang took about two dozen photos of Hepburn but only the two showcased at the exhibition were printed because most of the slide films were damaged during the development process.

"The pictures were cut in the middle by accident," she recalled. "Now we have Photoshop, and it is very easy to fix a simple problem like that. You couldn't have imagined something like this at that time."

Wang was born in Tianjin in 1957. She graduated from Tongji University in Shanghai, majoring in architecture, and went to Germany in 1986 with her husband Yu Lin as visiting scholars. There, Wang became intrigued with photography and filmmaking, resulting in her making the switch from architecture to art.

Her husband was supportive, helping her with the logistics and chauffeuring her on her shooting trips. It was during one of these trips to Prague in 1991 that they encountered a car accident. Wang was severely injured. Her husband died.

After awakening from a coma, Wang took out the camera and turned the lens at her broken face. She went on to take pictures of herself, the hospital, medical staff and friends who visited. Art accompanied her recovery and helped her live through this difficult time of loss.

Wang later said that this experience marked a turning point in her life as she found new meaning to her existence and was determined to become a professional artist. She has since made several documentaries, art films and taken pictures that are internationally published and exhibited.

German art critic Manfred Schneckenburger once said that Wang is "an icon of progress for the younger generation despite the Chinese consciousness of tradition".

Gu Zheng, a Chinese critic, described her self-portraits as "most brutally honest" while contemporary art curator Victoria Lu compared Wang to the iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo because of her "continuous record of her life".

In 2001, Wang published an autobiography titled My Visual Diary which was highly popular among readers. The book is still available in print now. That same year, Wang became a professor at Tongji University. She later founded the Xiao Hui Wang Art Center in 2003.

Throughout her career, Wang has worked with international brands and local governments in China on art projects as well as cross-over initiatives. In 2012, the government of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, invited her to turn a historical residence into the Xiao Hui Wang Art Museum. The museum features a 400-year-old courtyard that occupies a space of 1,600 square meters along the historical Pingjiang Road.

Wang recalled how a lot of work had to be done to set up the museum.

"There were very strict regulations on the protection of vintage buildings. You couldn't knock down any of the walls and you couldn't even hammer a nail into them," she said.

As part of the redesign of the property, Wang added a glass roof to a part of the garden which made new media projection possible. She also changed the main gate to face the pedestrian street. The project was such a success that it was named by a German institution as one of the 15 most beautiful private museums in China.

For five years, the center hosted art events, performances and exhibitions before it was returned to the Suzhou city government.

In 2016, the CEG Xiao Hui Wang Art Space opened in Shanghai, showcasing her creations as well as those from young emerging artists and designers.

Contact the writer at [email protected]

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