'The use of the symbol “+” and its variant “x” is the systematically employed distinguishing feature throughout the artistic output of Ding Yi (Shanghai, b. 1962), regarded as the most important abstract painter working in China today. The artist chose this sign in the second half of the 80s as a synonym of structure, rationality and of a pictorial expressiveness that reflects the essence of things.
The simplicity of compositional structures contrast with the use of a wide variety of materials and of colours that range from almost monochrome tones to the very bright and fluorescent. For the artist these are a record on canvas of the excesses, noise, chaos and confusion but also the stimuli, styles and fashions of the city of Shanghai, with which his work is inextricably bound up.' from the publication's back cover.
Includes an artist biography, author biographies, and Chinese translation of essays.
Onsite
English,
Italian,
Chinese - Simplified
2009
143
1
artist monograph,
catalogue
Towards a Rhythmics of the Sign: The Art of Ding Yi / Per una ritmica del segno: l'arte di Ding Yi - Gianfranco MARANIELLO
The Magician of Crosses / Il mago del '+' - CAO Weijun, 曹維君
The Space of Forgetting and the Space of Promise. Shanghai as a Matrix of Cultural Production / Lo spazio dell'oblio e lo spazio della promessa. Shanghai come matrice di produzione culturale - Magdalena KRONER
ding yi, 丁乙
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