Catalogue of the first exhibition in the UK of work by Shanghai-based Chinese artist Ding Yi. Consisting of seventeen works, dated from 1989, the exhibition follows the development of Ding’s career since he became expressly preoccupied with the simple cross motifs, ‘x’ and ‘+’. Crosses, as the intersections of two lines, such as longitude and latitude, are often the means by which a precise location is indicated. In Ding Yi's work they take on an existentialist significance, as mantra-like gestures they reiterate the fact that the artist physically 'was there'. Without being particularly religious, the artist acknowledges the influence of Taosim, expecially in his aspiration to simplicity and the blurring of boundaries – signified, for example, by a transparency of process and confusion of motif and ground. Artist biography is provided in the catalogue.

這是上海藝術家丁乙首次在英國舉辦畫展的圖錄。是次展覽收錄了他自1989年起創作的十七幅作品,記錄了他以簡單的「x」和「+」符號作為創作母題後所經歷的藝術蛻變。丁乙採用的十字符號由經緯二線交叉而成,常用於方位定向。在他的作品中,這個符號被賦予存在主義的意義,恍若經文般喃喃叨念着藝術家的存在。丁乙雖非虔誠的信徒,但受道教學說 (尤其是反璞歸真和虛實相生的思想) 影響甚深,這從他一目了然的創作過程及其題旨與背景交融的手法便可略窺一二。本圖錄亦載有藝術家的簡歷。
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Onsite

Location code
MON.DIY
Language

Chinese - Simplified, 

English

Publication/Creation date

2006

No of pages

63

ISBN / ISSN

1904864163

No of copies

2

Content type

artist monograph, 

catalogue

Chapter headings

An Excessive Minimalist - HOU Hanru, 侯瀚如

Resembling the World Outside – Interview with DingYi and Hans Ulrich Obrist

Ding Yi
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Ding Yi, 丁乙