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Contemporary Art and Luxury: Kering and Jiang Miao Join Forces for “Women in Motion” to Celebrate a New Year Full of Energy

Luxury group Kering has invited renowned Chinese contemporary artist Jiang Miao to develop a special artistic project for 2025 with a series called “Taoist Trinity and the Self” through a program where Kering is committed to shedding light on the extraordinary contributions of female artists to culture and the arts.

Contemporary Art and Luxury: Kering and Jiang Miao Join Forces for “Women in Motion” to Celebrate a New Year Full of Energy

Combining the profound wisdom of Eastern philosophy with the exploratory prowess of contemporary art, the collaboration between Kering and Jiang Miao is nothing less than a beautiful cycle of energy with multicultural codes in tandem to wish 2025.

The series "Taoist Trinity and the Self”, is one of Jiang Miao's most representative series of works, depicting a chaotic and dynamic space. The dots, lines and surfaces within the paintings are arranged around the spiral core, recalling the concept of Taiji, which produces all things, giving rise to the cycle of life. Each of her pieces contains more than 20 layers. Tuned through her perspective of natural elements, energy and colors overlap layer by layer, creating stereoscopic space art. Jiang Miao explained: “Color is energy. My abstract work is an extreme experiment with color. The continuous stacking and covering of tones compresses each time segmenting illogically together, pierced by a knife. Each knife mark is a color that penetrates time."

Women's empowerment is one of Kering's core values

Through the continued implementation of the program Women In Motion, Kering is committed to shining a light on the extraordinary contributions of female artists to culture and the arts. Since 2020, Kering’s New Year art program has demonstrated this value. In 2020, paper-cutting artist Wen Qiwen presented her piece Gazing at the Sky beyond the Clouds. In 2022, Kering welcomed the Year of the Tiger by commissioning the auspicious brushstroke Xu Jing from the contemporary calligrapher. In 2023, the Group collaborated with contemporary Chinese painter Peng Wei on her work That Year. Then, in 2024, Kering invited Chen Ke, a leading contemporary Chinese artist, to collaborate on a crossover art project titled Dragon Boat. This series of diverse and profound works provides a platform for female artists to showcase their talents. This year's collaboration with Jiang Miao aims to inspire more people to think deeply about life, nature and the universe, look to the future, and together embark on a vibrant and prosperous New Year full of promising omens.

Who is Jiang Miao?

Born in Jilin Province, China, she graduated with a master's degree from the Department of Printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and currently teaches at the same institution. With a solid academic foundation, she has moved from realistic and woodcut techniques to her current creative practice. After years of exploring and refining her artistic direction, she has developed a distinctive method that integrates painting, woodcut and relief into one art form, resulting in vibrant and intricate acrylic works. Beneath the surface of each of Jiang Miao's works are more than twenty layers of paintings. Each layer is a collection of the artist's immediate perceptions of sunlight, wind, air and temperature, encapsulating energy and color in a time capsule that she personally seals and accumulates. As her carving knife moves, these layers are gradually revealed, bringing out a sudden glimpse of light and shadow from the past, transforming the work from a flat plane to a stereoscopic form, as if time and space are preserved and displayed stereoscopically. Jiang Miao's works break the two-dimensional concept of traditional paintings, resembling flowing life forms extending into an unfathomable and mysterious three-dimensional space and time.

The creative process is the result of oriental philosophical thoughts

Jiang Miao engages in a creative process similar to spiritual practice, continuously reflecting and enlightening, seeking to find inner stability and understanding of an inner world of landscape within the universe. His works are paintings but not paintings, landscapes but not landscapes. In the cosmic world he describes with great effort and time, the layers of color contain infinite time and energy. Through the superficial language or symbols engraved by his knife, they calmly release the energy of life.

Women in Motion Program

Kering’s commitment to women is at the heart of the Group’s priorities and extends, through Women In Motion, to the field of arts and culture, where gender inequalities are still evident, even if creation is one of the most powerful vectors of change. In 2015, Kering launched Women In Motion at the Cannes Film Festival with the ambition of highlighting women in cinema, both in front of and behind the camera. The program has since expanded significantly to photography, but also to art, design, choreography and music. Through its awards, the program recognizes inspiring figures and emerging female talents, while its speeches and podcasts provide the opportunity for leading figures to share their views on the representation of women in their profession and in society at large. Since its creation, Women In Motion has become a platform of choice that helps change mindsets and ways of thinking about the place of women – and the recognition they receive – in the arts and culture.

Kering: The Global Luxury Group Signed “Empowering Imagination”

The Group manages the development of a series of renowned Houses in fashion, leather goods and jewelry: Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Brioni, Boucheron, Pomellato, DoDo, Qeelin, Ginori 1735, etc., as well as Kering Eyewear and Kering Beauté. By placing creativity at the heart of its strategy, Kering enables its Houses to set new limits in terms of creative expression, while also crafting the luxury of tomorrow in a sustainable and responsible way.

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