Xian Tao

 

Tao Xian 陶显 was born in 1991 in Maanshan, Anhui province, China, and lives in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. She expresses her artistic identities through painting, photography, and printmaking. Particularly, she is interested in exploring the relationship between advanced technology and the traditional painting, and how the technology influences the artist’s artistic directions or the audience’s understanding of contemporary painting. She manipulates the found images for creating a new way of narration and challenges the viewer’s visual boundaries. Her works feel as if they are slowly fading away, yet stay strong in your memory. Her vigorous colors contrasting her euphemistic figures in a portamento style, which diffuses a sense of eastern beauty.

She believes the world is virtual, it is through the material world that we see the manifestation of the inner self. As a result, through his art, Tao strives to present both "life change and uncertainty." His distinctive figurative compositions are digitally created to restructure the image, "as if the picture plane became a malfunctioning screen".