China boosts a time-honored history and a deep-rooted culture. The centuries old treasure, Hang Zhou silk enjoys an enormous reputation for its delicacy, preciousness, handiness and utility. The art of silk composes several categories, respectively spinning, embroidery, printing and painting. Among them, silk hand painting refers to a decorating craft that paints directly on silk, which is of the same origin as Chinese silk painting. This is a craft challenging designer’s sense of composition and technique with colors.
Macao Fashion Gallery specially designs this “Hang Zhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Conservation Project ‘Silk Painting’ Craft Exhibition – QIU Haisuo ’s Silk Painting Art”, aiming at introducing to the public how the traditional craft silk painting is integrated with modern design, and inspiring Macao local fashion designers to do diversified creation .
Professor QIU Haisuo is from China Academy of Art and is a famous silk painting expert from Hang Zhou. The 15 suits displayed in this exhibition were hand-painted by her before sewed into clothes and dresses. The paintings are vivid and lively, playing a supporting role to tailoring, which highlights the graceful and beautiful bodies of eastern women. The works of QIU Haisuo are well known around the world, and her work, The Story of Spring won a number of awards, including the first prize in the Design Category of the 9th National Exhibition of Outstanding Works of Fine Arts, while the Peony and Phoenix Bride Gown not only embodies the concept of the wedding dresses of eastern women, but also breaks through the traditions by blending western tailoring. Chimed in with hand-painted and golden-thread-decorated peony and phoenix, this suit reveals a new style of cheongsam, featuring the new attitude on grace and dignity of women in the new era.
Macao Fashion Gallery appreciates the full support of Professor QIU for bringing the Hang Zhou non-tangible cultural heritage to Macao, giving the local citizens as well as the tourists an opportunity to learn and admire the precious treasure, and allowing the local fashion designers to feel the exquisiteness and refinement of the mixture of tradition and modern fashion through the exhibits.
