Hosted by Macao Research Center for Printmaking Art, “AP9 ‘Red Makeup’ Artists Exhibition” was held at the Macao Military Club on June 8 through to June 13, 2013. It was the first exhibition to invite 16 female artists from cross-strait and four regions, gathering for an exchange, not only an important event for Macao’s art circle, but also a wonderful artistic communication for the printmaking circles from cross-strait and four regions.

“AP9 ‘Red Makeup’ Artists Exhibition” is the first exhibition for female printmakers from cross-strait and four regions, and makes sense. The exhibition features the works by 16 famous young and middle-aged female artists, including Liu Liping, Zhang Ling, Hou Xiuting, Wen Tian from the mainland China, Lin Hsueh-Ching from Taiwan, Liao Sahozhen, He Yuming, Huang Lilan from Hong Kong, as well as Anita Fung, Xu Lingzhi, Leung Wing Yee, Deng Jinshan, Wu Lichang, Hu Jiayun, Lin Wanmei, Wu Jiabi from Macao. These female artists belong to academies, and they brought more than 90 pieces of fine works, created in different approaches, such as traditional wood block print, serigraph, lithograph, etching, synthetic print and digital print. Through these artworks, we are able to understand that, expressing their feelings on various social issues, the female artists who come from different districts and cultural backgrounds, with the artistic tension produced from the unique perspective of a woman, revealing the unprecedented power of revolution and unique female artistic charm brought about by art, as well as the diverse talents of the female printmakers, to bring a new artistic perspective to the particular artistic language of print.

Through the exchange, fusion, reference and supplement of the Chinese and Western techniques, it carried out a series of spiritual journals. Artworks have the qualities of cross-language and crossing time-and-space, with the dual sides of the reality and illusion of the works, to blur the boundaries between the time and geography, to guide viewers to reflect on the lives between reality and illusion.

“AP9 ‘Red Makeup’ Artists Exhibition” not only offered an opportunity for the public to know, interact, study and communicate with the female artists from Macao, mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, but also allows those interested in printmaking to understand the diversity of contemporary printmaking. It promotes the contemporary artistic interaction and communication between Macao and other zones, and undoubtedly heavily pushing the exploration and development of the local cultural undertaking.

Translated by Chen Peihua and edited by Sue/CAFA ART INFO