PING HE 和平
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Collisions of Colour: a conversa!on with Ping He by Michele Tufigno from NY-ArtNews Ping He’s work is not your average pain!ng: imbued with millennia of history yet simultaneously of the moment, his style has evolved throughout his career, capturing facets of his complex thought process and reflec!ng our ever-changing world. From stark pencil lines to delicate pastel tones, Ping transforms the ideogram into simple form, freeing himself from the diktats of calligraphy to create something en!rely new, albeit harking back to his ever-present Chinese heritage. His personal approach to his me!er may seem unorthodox to some: ‘I am obsessed with pain!ng and the reason is very simple: during the pain!ng process, new feelings are constantly produced, with new thoughts and new crea!ve thinking. Some people say that crea!on is art, but I see it more as an interes!ng game. Because there is no template, the expression will show different visual effects every day’, he enthusias!cally explains. Having approached pain!ng in his youth, Ping discovered his need for personal expression when visi!ng New York in 1999 to launch a solo exhibi!on; it was this first personal contact with the works of Western masters and the avant-garde art of Chelsea’s galleries that prompted his revolu!on of ‘self’. It is this very link to the past through an undeniably contemporary lens which has a$racted the a$en!on of European and American audiences, allowing Ping to successfully showcase his work for Western audiences keen to embrace the esoteric East and his very personal take on scien!fic development and Taoist philosophy. He places par!cular emphasis on the need for balance and of the act of crea!ng as a means of returning to this very same balance: ‘Hawking’s view of the universe touched me especially: the pain!ng process seems to be driven and guided by an invisible force. I feel that through my pain!ng of repeated crossed lines and the yin and yang collision of colors, a new space is created, allowing the soul to inhabit it. Every life exists in the overall energy system because of its molecular form in the movement of the universe, so in the process of crea!on I feel the magne!c field, gravita!on and energy waves are balanced in the collision of brushstrokes and colors.’
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