yuznews | Upcoming『Duet: A Tan Ping Retrospective』

2019.06.15-2019.09.22

双重奏：谭平回顾展

Duet: A Tan Ping Retrospective

策展人：巫鸿

Curator：Wu Hung

Yuz Museum will present “Duet”, a solo exhibition of Tan Ping curated by the renowned art historian and critic Wu Hung, on June 15th, 2019. Set in the present, the exhibition is a retrospective anthology of the 35 years of the artist’s creative career. Over 40 paintings, prints, videos and on-site paintings that constitute the exhibition provide a review of the artist’s upbringing, life and mental progress as well as an observation on his artistic evolvement via the experience and perspective of an individual life.

The exhibition narrates itself alternately by the two main lines of Tan Ping’s creation — printing and painting, and the mediums of his art and the starting point of his exploration, quite coincidentally, also realise a diploid crossover with the track of zeitgeist. One of China’s significant contemporary artists, his development has always been contextualised in the happening and progressing of Chinese contemporary art. Through threads of his art, this exhibition presents a response and discussion towards the specific questions of Chinese contemporary art. Unlike shows that are familiar to us, this solo does not stick to a chronological order; instead, its curation also applies the artist’s thinking and working method to approach a cogitation upon language and reality.

About the Artist

Photo by Hao Ke, Yan Jiayi

Tan Ping is an artist and pedagogist, also the vice dean of Chinese National Academy of Arts. He graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 1984 and was educated in Germany in the late 1980s, holding a Master’s degree and a Meisterschule degree. He is awarded honorary doctoral degree at Kingston University London. He held the posts of dean of School of Design, CAFA and vice dean of CAFA. During over 40 years of art practice, Tan Ping has always been exploring the varied fields of painting, printing, multi-media and design. His works are now in the important collections of The National Art Museum of China, Shanghai Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Museum Ludwig and Arizona State University Art Museum.

About the Curator

Wu Hung, a permanent member of the American Academy of Art and Science, is a renowned art historian, critic, and curator. Currently he holds the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professorship at the Department of Art History and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, and is also the director of the Center for the Art of East Asia and the Consulting Curator at the Smart Museum at the same university. He sits on several international committees including Guggenheim Museum's Asian Art Council, and chairs the Academic Committees of OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT). Wu Hung's research interests include both traditional and contemporary art. Regarding contemporary art, he has curated many exhibitions since the 1980’s, including individual artists’ one-person shows, thematic group exhibitions, and biennales and triennials. In addition to the catalogues that he compiled for these exhibitions, he has published many influential books and anthologies, including Art and Exhibition: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art (2005), Breaking New Paths: Wu Hung on Contemporary Chinese Artists (2008), Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents (2010), and Contemporary Chinese Art: A History (2014).