谢 其
XIE QI

Xie Qi: Bad girls goes to heaven too

Gu Zhenqing

Good girls goes to heaven, bad girls goes everywhere. This sentence was originally name of a best seller by … and is now a catch phrase on the net. Xie Qi lives alone and paints in an apartment near the north fourth ring road in Beijing. She is an independent artist, either in the sense of her ideology or in the sense of her lifestyle. She supports and entertains herself. She has a character and clear. Sometimes she has too much confidence; sometimes she grows love for no reason, or hatred with her strong evidence. Her painting go for her feeling and her brush produces magic. Xie Qi should be categorized as a talented painter. Painting excites her rich imagination and let her imagination nerve grow like weeds. At the same time, by painting, she indulged herself into her exuberant world of the self. Xie Qi never hides or taboo on secretive sex or sexual organs in her creation. She speaks out what is in her mind and creates many rebellious figures and images. In her paintings, she employs unique expression and strokes to emphasis spasm, excitement, struggles of muscles and misty souls. She is not a realistic painter; neither does she possess absolute expressionism spirit. The abstract strokes and details that fill up her paintings have revealed the possibility of her multiple pursues of logic advancement. Xie Qi enjoys creating a new style and then, to overpass it. By doing this, she experiences the pleasure of self-revolution and inspiration. Inside Xie Qi, is a strong and relentless world. Her wild happiness and tranquility can be found similar in other’s painting by eyes, but not by heart. Right till now, the technique that Xie Qi employs on her paintings are getting more and more mature and delicate. She starts and ends her emotions and all her enthusiasm, which makes audience feel hard to find the clue.    

Good girls always have misleading area in their thoughts because good girls are results of Emile education. Bad girls prefer to grow by themselves because bad girls precious themselves. They respect themselves; therefore, they try successfully realizing their own values. Xie Qi is a bad girl in this sense, but she owns one treasure. She holds fast to self-revolution in her art and by doing this, she is filled with talents. Xie Qi connects with each of her works and her works follows her witty steps, advance gradually. With years of growth and accumulation, Xie Qi’s character can be seen from her painting with clue.

Xie Qi indulges her daily life into her paintings, tries, and practices her voyage from here to there. Bad girls do not go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere, heaven too.