Exhibition Duration: October 13 - November 10, 2017

Location: Halls 5, 6, 8 and 9

 

Where is the direction of local art creation in China? How does Chinese contemporary art look for the strength of the root system from the origin of culture? Willing to Learn: The Thinking of Qiu Ting's Chinese Brush Paintings is an exhibition to think about this issue on the basis of individual case study.

 

Many practitioners of contemporary Chinese art hope to establish their own image by using a simple symbolic creation. It may have short-term results. However, the development of traditional Chinese art takes another path that is more laborious - - That gradual self-discipline evolves over the accumulation of the past, and the creators must be familiar with the accomplishments of their predecessors and grow their unique self in their profound cultivation.

 

Qiu Ting is exactly such an artist. Instead of hurrying to learn from the ancients, he gradually looks for new possibilities in the traditional study. His vision is not limited to the past but to the whole process of world culture. This is undoubtedly a very significant case for the development of Chinese contemporary art.

 

Qiu Ting, from Luhe, Guangdong, is a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and director of the Department of Landscape Painting at the Chinese Painting Institute. He was graduated from the Department of Landscape Painting of the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree in 1996; he was graduated from the Department of Landscape Painting of the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts with master degree in 2000; he received doctoral degree of art at Tsinghua University in 2004.

 

In talking about his creation, Qiu Ting said that there are many rainy days in the south and that he placed a high priority on addition of shading around an object in a painting to make it stand out when he paints in the south because that the weather is of moisture and the paper is relatively soft. It is very suitable for subtle and tiny Chinese brush painting in the rainy south China. Later, he came to the north where is abundant of things magnificent, boundless and full of life. He was touched very much. "Landscape of Xishan Mountain", a very important painting of Qiu Ting, depicts landscape around Xiangshan Mountain and Badachu. Trees in the north grow very well and mountains are full of soil and stones and not very naked. Unlike the south, trees are not populous on slops in the north.

 

While creating, he collects painting and calligraphy works. His collections of ancient calligraphy and painting, such as Shen Zhou, Dong Qichang, Zha Shibiao, Yi Binshou, Ruan Yuan contributed to his appreciation, study and creation of paintings and calligraphy. Over the past decade, he gave lectures and exhibitions abroad and studied famous paintings and calligraphy of Song and Yuan Dynasties at some important museums in the US and Japan that expanded his understanding of paintings and calligraphy of Song and Yuan Dynasties.

 

The exhibition is the first large-scale solo exhibition of the artist. Curator Wu Hongliang selected representative works and collections of the artist and displayed the exhibition. Not only can we feel the rhetoric of the language style of the artist's career, but also appreciate how his collection, research and appreciation is integrated with creation.