XU MIN：SILVER BRACELET SLIGHTLY GLOWING

In recent years, Xu Min has been pushing forward his painting changes with a dull but powerful rhythm.

Her paintings flow naturally forward through time like a slow stream. A few years ago, like a textile worker, Xu Min used charcoal or pencil to weave dense lines on the canvas. The images presented by these lines are entangled men and women, static and hardened clouds, and some geometric symbols like rainy days, which were her inner reflection and deposition of the passing years in time. There are two wonderful works in the transition to the next step, the atmosphere of the picture begins to be comfortable. The color changed from black gray to light blue gray, with translucent layer treatment. Some open air emerged from some fine pencil drawings, combined with a free and controlled brush stroke. Images are no longer entangled. People, plants, animals, rain, clouds, these images take on a lyrical meaning. Then there are some still lifes dominated by flowers. The picture starts to be calm and conveys a kind of quiet poetry. Recently, Xu Min began to observe nature again, and found the connection between man and nature, time and herself in the depiction of ordinary scenes.

My friend Lao Zhao has a poem: "Rainy day / black hat with wide brim / Haunted in the woods / breathing difficulties / two shimmering silver bracelets on left and right hands". The name of the poem is called "Phoenix". It's an empathetic portrait of some remote place in the south. The imagery contained in the poem is highly consistent with the transparent temperament that pervades Xu Min's works.

These works of Xu Min have a casual and relaxed style of writing, which is combined with the unique color talent and delicate observation perspective of female artists. They are related to time, emotion and her existence.

The artist has been living in the southern part of the country for 20 years, and her works have become calm over time, showing natural and shining brilliance like silver bracelets.

旗杆  flagpole

2021   布面油画 oil on canvas   120x150 cm

天空 sky

2021   布面油画 oil on canvas   120x150 cm

烟火 fireworks

2021   布面油画 oil on canvas   120x150 cm

收割  harvest

2020   布面油画 oil on canvas   120x150 cm

祝你快乐 wish you happiness

2020   布面油画 oil on canvas   120x150 cm

一种神奇的化学反应 a magical chemical reaction

2018   布面油画 oil on canvas   99x90 cm

恭喜发财  gong xi fa cai

2018   布面油画 oil on canvas   100x100 cm

物 系列#10 object #10

2017   布面丙烯 acrylic on canvas   50x40 cm

物 系列#9 object #9

2017   布面丙烯 acrylic on canvas   50x40 cm

物 系列#6 object #6

2017   布面丙烯 acrylic on canvas   40x50 cm

物 系列#5 object #5

2017   布面丙烯 acrylic on canvas   50x40 cm

物 系列#3 object #3

2017   布面丙烯 acrylic on canvas   50x40 cm

物 系列#1 object #1

2017   布面丙烯 acrylic on canvas   40x50 cm

云 clouds

2016   布面油画 oil on canvas   120x150 cm

寻找yRy looking for yRy

2016   布面油画 oil on canvas   120x150 cm

粉色故人 old friends in pink

2016   布面油画 oil on canvas   120x150 cm

寂寞岛屿 lonely islands 

2015   布面油画 oil on canvas   120x165 cm

漫步者 walker

2014   布面油画 oil on canvas   120x170 cm