Tan Ping at 50 |
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May 15 - June 6, 2010
Curated by Brian Wallace
Red Gate is pleased to announce "Tan Ping at 50" a retrospective exhibition of this master printmaker as he marks thirty years of artistic creation. Tan Ping started exhibiting at Red Gate Gallery in 1995 and is one of Red Gate's first exhibiting artists. This retrospective is both a celebration of Tan Ping's career as an artist and recognition of his role as an educator having inspired a whole generation of artists at the Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA), where he is currently Vice President, and beyond.
Graduated from the printmaking department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tan Ping rediscovered abstraction and its essence when he was awarded a scholarship to study in Berlin, Germany. During the years spent abroad, not only was he exposed to European artistic traditions but he also reconnected with his Chinese roots as he strives to interpret and innovate the art of printmaking with an Asian connection. Just as a true artist never ceases to evolve and redefine his artistic perspective, the exhibition will showcase the various phases of his graphic expression over the last twenty years. From the early calligraphic etchings on special hand-made paper to chromatic etchings using his innovative technique of over-layering copperplates to the more recent cellular works, "Tan Ping at 50" is an artistic journey infused with a unique sensibility founded on the marriage between the Western tradition of printmaking and Chinese philosophies and principles.
Liyu Yeo