After Ding YijunsJungle Series at the Tuff Contemporary Art Museum in Chengdu, it seems ready to come to label Ding as little Monster orAlien, and the theme of this exhibition should be consistent. However, the real art does not care about the theme, which is just an excuse to arouse the audiencesattention on works by exciting their curiosity. In the visual art, the perception aroused by the process of appreciating is much more meaningful and important than the result of cognitiveprocess.
The works in this exhibition are still paintings and wood. These paintings and wood are still be the scenes or materials to reflect all sentient beings. Regardless of the use of wood, vellum or paints flowing on the canvas, a witty artist can make those non-human things seem just as people in all shapes and sizes in an accident, or to capitalize on the trend is real, or forward, or deceitful act. Those people, faces, wretched body and sycophantic manners, if be regarded as a mirror, all of above will be familiar to sensitive viewers, after all, art is the shadow of social reality.
The funny fact is that we dont know whether art had step forward from ancient to modern times, but we do know that the image of people in art is actually falling down from beauty to ugliness. Perhaps this is the trait of artin this mediocre time without myth, like a scoffer who is always defiantly teasing humans conceit and revealing human nature.
The difference between traditional art and contemporary art is that the charm of traditional art often comes from the objects it imitates；the significance of contemporary art, however, comes more from the material and the artstructure itself. The thing is, is it better to imitate the appearance of people, or is it better to choose the symbolic meaning of materials and constructions in art to reveal the state of people, or both of them to confusethe human nature? Clearly, contemporary art chose the latter.
As a result, I see the artist constantly creates many humble faces with crafty look and body fullof fear and desire with wood section and the curve of paints. The scenes and images are absurd, also comic, humorous and ironic. The masks expressions and the wooden figures gestures that make us laugh, the feelings that are contrary to grace, decency and dignity, which are familiar to us will be showed in the least embarrassing way. In this sense, true art is the mostinnocuous angle from which we can review ourselves, the method to see through human nature, the sincerity in a faithless age and the spirituality of the Dharma-ending age.
The wonder of ourage is the coexistence of the popularity of art and a general misunderstanding of it. On the one hand, we endlessly add art to a building, a shop-sign, a toothbrush, even a drink bottle; On the other hand, we are full of doubts about the extraordinary creativity of artists. Quite a lot of audiences imagination of art is still in ancient times, and the value and significance of the new art coexisting with the cultural modernity still need to be more generally understood, and its audience, those who are open and have no prejudice on what art is, still need to be cultivated.
So I think the exhibition of Ding Yijun works in Xining does not mean the completion of works, it still need another response, we might put the response and evaluation of audiences of different generations, different professions, different educational backgrounds and different tastes as part of the works, after all, art is the achievement on the bases of each others exploring and shaping between artists and the public.
LuShigang
June 30,2020 in Haikou
展览时间：2020年7月25日- 9月25日
开幕酒会：2020年7月25日 15:00
分 享 会：2020年7月26日 16:00
地 点：西宁 几何书店
策 展 人：崔付利
学术主持：卢士刚
项目统筹：东奴
出 品 人：青海几何文化发展有限公司
展览实施：大浦当代艺术馆 西宁当代 九平方画廊
202020 Ding Yijun Solo Show
Exhibition time：July 25th - September 25th, 2020
Opening Reception: Sat. July 25th 3:00p.m.
Seminar with the Artist：Sun. July 26th, 4:00p.m. at JIHE Bookstore
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