On October 17, 2015, “Follow My Line: Tan Ping Solo Exhibition” and “Traffic Controls: Liu Qinghe Solo Exhibition” opened at the ML Art Gallery on Saturday October 17. It is organized by the Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, co-organized by ML Art Gallery and sponsored by Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum, curated by Yi Ying, to respectively feature the new works created by the two artists from the academy in recent years, the dual exhibition is also a collateral event of “Art Changsha” biennale, as the first event to unveil the 5th “Art Changsha”.

Tan Ping and Liu Qinghe both come from the academy, exploring the own artistic development path in different artistic fields, which is full of difficulties and frustrations, so the themes of the dual exhibition “Follow My Line” and “Traffic Controls” are both related to walking and also showcases that they will continue to move forward, breaking through the modes, achievements, and restrictions. “Follow My Line: Tan Ping Solo Exhibition” presents a recently created series of new works, these abstract paintings and drawings reflect the transcendence of an image and the performance, directly expressing the heart. Curator Yi Ying said that the recent works by Tan Ping were an abstract performance completed all at one time, rather than multi-layer coverings of the previous ones, the small change was probably a new rendering of the next crossing by Tan Ping. When Tan Ping was interviewed by CAFA ART INFO, he said: “I will firmly maintain the ambition in the process of artistic exploration, although there will be a lot of difficulties, for example, when I get older, the ability to accept, innovation and consciousness become weaker than before; in addition, when an artist is known, the related environments including mechanism, markets and comments will contain development.” “Traffic Controls: Liu Qinghe Solo Exhibition” presents a series of works including “Vernacular”, “On the top of the Wall”, “Deeply”, “Water from Heaven”, “Traffic Controls”, etc. These works are involved in the spiritual life of contemporary urban people from his unique artistic perspective, refusing to deliberately create a form, advocating the performance through true sentiment and temperament rather than a dramatic plot. Liu Qinghe said that “Traffic Controls” expressed many conflicts and entanglements between reality and rules, he vividly gave an example: “Traffic controls in Beijing make me very upset and inconvenience me when travelling, but I will rejoice when I find my car is not controlled today.” Yi Ying poked fun at that though he stubbornly planned the exhibition because few people agreed with what he said, it was full of difficulties. It is hard to see the future of the art of Tan Ping and Liu Qinghe, but we can see that they are ambitious and stubbornly move forward from the exhibition and interviews.

Along with the dual exhibition, a documentary catalogue is published by Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, completely rsearching the texts of the two artists. The exhibition will continue to November 12.

Text and photo by Zhang Wenzhi/CAFA ART INFO

Translated by Chen Peihua and edited by Sue/CAFA ART INFO