Mao Xuhui (b. 1956, Chongqing) is an artist currently living and working in Kunming, Yunnan. In 1985, Mao, along with Zhang Xiaogang, Hou Wenyi, Zhang Long and Pan Dehai, organized the exhibition ‘New Concrete Image’, which was presented in Shanghai, Nanjing, Kunming and Chongqing during 1985 to 1987. In 1986, these artists formed the Southwestern Art Research Group.

As an organizer of various events, Mao has collected and preserved a prodigious amount of primary documentation. These documents record in great detail not only Mao’s personal artistic development, but also that of artists from China’s Southwest. Since 2004, AAA has been working with Mao to scan and catalogue his collection of documents. A selection of these documents, dating from 1985 to 1987 and reflecting Mao’s own creative endeavour and the ‘New Concrete Image’ exhibitions and events, are presented here.