Exhibition focuses on Walasse Ting’s nature works
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WALASSE Ting (1929-2010) made a name for himself in the contemporary art world with his bold female nudes. A new exhibition entitled “Forget Lovesick and Admire Wind & Moon,” now on display at Longmen Art Projects, is showcasing a collection of Ting’s lessor-known paintings of landscapes, flowers and animal.
Born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, Ting was raised in Shanghai. He began painting at the age of 4, and while he briefly attended the Shanghai Art Academy he always described himself as a self-taught artist.
Ting created a new form by applying color acrylic paint on rice paper. He used thin black lines to outline forms and painted in acrylic with a virtuosity that made the forms appear feather-light and transparent, with a watercolor quality.
Free from the constraint of stylized forms and techniques, Ting applied the most basic forms of painting — outlining with brief strokes and then coloring in parallel, establishing a very modern form of expression.
In 1952, Ting immigrated to Paris, where he formed close friendships with various members of the CoBrA expressionist group, which drew inspiration from children’s paintings and primitive art.
In 1958, Ting moved to New York just as abstract expressionism and pop art were at their peak. There he befriended Sam Francis, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselman.
Despite these close relationships, he never considered himself a part of any artistic movement or group.
In 1970, Ting received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts. His work has been collected by museums around the world.
After 2002, Ting could no longer work due to a stroke, and he died in New York in 2010, said Lily Lee, the organizer of the exhibition in Shanghai.
“Although Ting belonged to the past era, the love toward the ambience that wafted over his paintings last for generations,” she added. She said even today when standing in front of his paintings, the viewers might still feel the passion, longing and wildness from the artist that radiated from his works.
Date: Through December 31,
10:30am-6:30pm (Tuesday-Saturday)
Venue: Rm 102, Tian’an Center
Address: 338 Nanjing Rd W.
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