Ding Yi – Sul segno degli artisti # 11

Dodici artisti presentati, nell’arco di un anno, con 12 lavori ciascuno e raccolti in un catalogo annuale. Lo zodiaco costituirà ciclicamente per 12 anni l’imprevedibile percorso di una lunga mostra sul segno astrale di 144 artisti prescelti, per un ammontare cabalistico di 1728 opere da esporre.

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Dodici artisti da presentare nell'arco di un anno con 12 lavori ciascuno. Alla fine dell'anno sarà pubblicato un catalogo edito dalla Salarchi Immagini, nel segno degli (astri) artisti prescelti, contenente 144 opere: esso costituirà per dodici anni il corpo ideale di una sinestesia simbolica da deporre nella collana editoriale "Sul segno degli artisti" in dodici volumi, per un ammontare cabalistico di 1728 opere d'arte esposte, prodotte da 144 artisti.
Sabato 28 gennaio alle ore 19, presso la Galleria degli Archi di Comiso, ci sarà l’undicesimo appuntamento con “Sul segno degli artisti”: saranno esposte dodici opere su carta di uno dei protagonisti dell'arte cinese contemporanea, Ding Yi, nato a Shanghai, noto a livello internazionale grazie alla coerenza e alla qualità dei suoi lavori, che sono stati esposti in 17 mostre personali (da Shanghai a Beijing, a Berlino, Lucerna, Birmingham, Parigi, Bologna, Koeln...) e circa 130 mostre collettive in tutto il mondo (Oxford, Brisbane, Venezia, Goeteborg, Chicago, Vancouver, Barcellona, San Pietroburgo, Yokohama, Vienna, Parigi, Dublino, Milano, Taipei, Amburgo, Groninigen, Bruxelles, Hong Kong, San Francisco...). Su Ding Yi hanno scritto personalità dell'arte contemporanea quali Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hou Hanru, Achille Bonito Oliva, Gianfranco Maraniello, Fei Dawei, Gao Minglu...
Nel settembre 1995 la critica d'arte Monica Dematté, una delle maggiori esperte internazionali di arte cinese contemporanea, curò una mostra di opere su carta di Ding Yi, allora poco conosciuto seppur già reduce da una Biennale di Venezia (1993), presso la Galleria degli Archi. Il suo pezzo: "Semplicità, complessità, sintesi - L'evoluzione pittorica di Ding Yi", pubblicato sulla più importante rivista cinese di arte contemporanea di allora, Jiangsu Pictorial, contribuì a far conoscere la poetica dell'artista nel suo paese. I lavori su carta creati apposta per la mostra di Comiso suscitarono l'interesse locale e vennero esposti in seguito in altre località italiane. La positiva esperienza del pittore in Sicilia nel 1995, resa possibile dall'apertura e lungimiranza del gallerista Salvatore Schembari, anch'egli all'epoca agli inizi di un lungo e ricco percorso artistico e culturale, ha convinto l'artista (recentissimo protagonista di un'importante ed estesa retrospettiva presso il Mingshen Art Museum a Shanghai, sua città natale) a ripresentarsi in Sicilia proponendo dodici opere presso la Galleria degli Archi di Comiso. Si tratta dunque della terza mostra personale di Ding Yi in Italia, dopo quella appena menzionata risalente al lontano 1995 e un'importante apparizione presso il Mambo di Bologna (2008), e di una rara possibilità per il pubblico italiano di vedere le opere dell'affermato artista cinese.
Sia Ding Yi che la curatrice Monica Dematté saranno presenti all'inaugurazione.
Biografia
1962 nato a Shanghai
1990 laureato presso la Shanghai University, Fine Arts Department
1983 diplomato presso il Shanghai Arts & Crafts Institute
Premi 2001 Artist in Residence, Kuenstlerhauser Worpswede, Germany
Mostre personali:
2011
Ding Yi, Specific Abstracted, Ming Shen Art Museum, Shanghai
DING YI, Appearance of Crosses, Galerie Waldburger, Brussels,Belgium

2010
Ding Yi Fluorescence - New Catalogue Release Cocktail Party, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2008
DING Yi, Recent Works, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Appearance of Crosses from 1989-2007, Solo Exhibition of Ding Yi, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2007
DING Yi, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
2006
Graticule, Ding Yi's Works from 1989 to 2006, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
2005
Ding Yi, Appearance of Crosses, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2004
Crossed Vision, Works by Ding Yi, CAAW-China Art Archive & Warehouse, Beijing
Small Works, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
2003
DING Yi: Appearance of Crosses, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
2002
DING Yi: Appearance of Crosses, Galerie Waldburger, Berlin, Germany
2000
Ding Yi: Fluorescence Paint on Tartan, China Art Archive & Warehouse, Beijing
1998
Ding Yi: Crosses '89-'97, International Art Palace, Beijing
1997
Ding Yi: Crosses '97, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
1996
15 x Red, New Works on Paper by DING Yi, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
1995
Ding Yi: Opere su Carta, Galleria degli Archi, Comiso, Italy
1994
Exhibition of Ding Yi's Abstract Art Works, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Ding Yi's Work on Paper, Guangzhou Fine Art Academy, Guangzhou

Mostre collettive
2011
Growing Up, Exhibition celebrating SWFC 3rd & ShanghART Gallery 15th Anniversary, Shanghai World Financial Center
Image History Existence – TaiKang Life 15th Anniversary Art Collection Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Tao of Nature – 2011 Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Collecting History – China New Art, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu
Verso Est – Chinese Architectural Landscape, MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, MAXXI Architettura Gallery 1, Rome
Contemporary Art Exhibition Documentation Project II:" Let's Talk about Money--1st International Fax Art Exhibition in Shanghai 1996", ShanghART Taopu, Shanghai
Chinese Abstract Slow Art, Singer Laren Museum, The Netherlands
Breaking Away, An Abstract Art Exhibition, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
2010
One by one, ShanghART Group Show, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
FIAC 2010, Art Fairs Grand Palais, Paris, France
Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000-2009, Special Documenta, China National Convention Center, Beijing
The State of Things, Contemporary Art from China and Belgium, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
The Burden of Represtation, Abstraction in Asia Today, Osage Gallery, Shanghai
Culture of Shanghai, The Artists Concerned by HWAS, HAWS Gallery, Shanghai
Coincidence, Don Gallery, Shanghai
Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Exhibition in the sky, Pudong tower advertisement boards, Shanghai
Shanghai, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Shanghai Modern Exhibition, CAI; Gallery Monma Annex, Sapporo, Japan
Chinese Contemporary Art in the Year of the Tiger, Centre Culturel de Rencontre "Abbaye de Neumunster", Luxembourg
Photo Exhibition of Contemporary Artists, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Chinese Contemporary Artist in Their Twenties, Beijing Angle Modern Art, Beijing
2009
Footloose, Galerie Waldburger, Brussels, Belgium
Collision, Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
Out of Shanghai, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany
Shanghai History in Making from 1979 till 2009, 436 Jumen Rd., Shanghai
Fan Ceremony, Fine Arts Literature Art Centre, Wuhan
Warm Up, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Fan Ceremony, Works On Paper, Yard Gallery, Shanghai
Yi Pai - Century Thinking A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Domus Collection New York | Beijing, White Space, Beijing
Un-natural, A New Ciscussion on Nature and Chinese Traditions, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing
ShanghART Group Show, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
Another scene - artists' projects, concepts and ideas, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass, U.S.A.
Yi – School, 30 Years of Abstract Chinese Art, Wall Art Museum, Beijing
2008
Five Years of Duolun: Chinese Contemporary Art Retrospective Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Hybrid, ShanghART at Huaihai Rd 796, Shanghai
It is I Too, Self Portraits By 21 Chinese Artists, OFOTO Gallery, No.50, Moganshan Road, Shanghai
Avant-Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
China University Culture, 2008 Contemporary Art Exhibition, New B Gallery, Shanghai
Material Link, A Dialogue Between Greek and Chinese Artists, MoCA, Shanghai
UWANTART: The New Signature in Art, Special Inaugural Exhibition • Volume Two, UWANTART, Shanghai
The Tale of Silk: A Hermès Exhibition, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing
Writing on the Wall, Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in the Eighties and nineties, The Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
Red Aside, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, The Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Selected, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
La Escuela Yi, 30 Years of Abstract Chinese Art, La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
2007
85 New Wave - The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
The Tale of Silk, A Hermès Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Rejected Collection, More the 40 Chinese Artists /Over 60 Rejected Proposals, Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai
Individual Positions 1, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
Strategy on Paper, Works on Paper Invitational Exhibition, Square Gallery of contemporary Art, Nanjing
Harmony and Difference, East China Contemporary Sculpture Invitational Exhibition, Art Space of Fine Art College from Shanghai University, Shanghai
Shanghai Attitude, Invitation Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, Makii Stainless Co.,Ltd., Shanghai
2006
Z-art Center Opening Exhibition, Z-art Center, Shanghai
Art in Motion, MoCA, Shanghai
Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity, MoCA, Shanghai
6th Shanghai Biennale - Hyper Design, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Witness, Blue Dreamland Gallery, Chengdu
Shanghai Academic Culture, Contemporary Art Exhibition by Shanghai Universities’ teachers, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
In the Name of Material, Hss Art Centre, Shanghai
Transform, Artist Created by Their Works, Jing Art Gallery, Shanghai
Works on paper, Xuhui Art Museum, Shanghai
The Blossoming of Realism, The Oil Painting of Mainland China Since 1978, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Contemporary Chinese Art, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Contemporary China, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2005
Born in China, Goedhuis Contemporary, London, U.K.
Alien Illusion, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Cina: Prospettive d' Arte Contemporanea, Spazio Oberdan, Milano, Italy
Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
In Their 40's, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
Shenzhen Art Biennale, OCT Contempory Art Centre, Shenzhen
Pictorial DNA Made in China, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
Art & Issue, China-Korea Art Exchange Exhibition, Soca gallery, Beijing
Reveal, Shanghai Artdeco, Shanghai
Study Practice, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
2004
New Boundaries, Taikang Top Space, Beijing
Dreaming of the Dragon's Nation, Contemporary Art from China, IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), Dublin, Ireland
Shanghai Modern, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
Dial 62761232 (Express Delivery Exhibition), Contemporary Art Exhibition, BizArt, Shanghai
Persona, Ai Weiwei, Ding Yi, Wang Xingwei, China Art Archive & Warehouse, Beijing
2003
Open Sky, Grand Opening of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Prayer Beads and Brush Strokes, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Dashanzi, Beijing
Chinese Maximalism, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing; University at Buffalo Art Galleries and Museum Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A.
Take a Seat, Artsea Studio & Gallery, Shanghai
Subversion and Poetry, Contemporary Chinese Art, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
An Openning Era, NAMOC (National Art Museum of China), Beijing
Junction-Chinese Contemporary Architecture of Art, Lianyang Architecture Art Museum, Shanghai
Different Choice, The Invited Exhibition of the Shanghai 60's Artists, Bandao Gallery, Shanghai
2002
The First Guangzhou Trienniale - Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990 - 2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Quick Look!, Shanghai Zhejiang Jiangsu Anhui Contemporary Art Exhibition, Consulate General of Switzerland, Shanghai
Tow Abstract Artists in Shanghai, Ding Yi - Shen Fan, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
Metaphysics 2002, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Golden Harvest, Museum of the Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Crossing Cultures, Elementarteilchenkunst, Kunsthaus Muerz (Steirischer Herbst), Austria
Ost + West, Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Paris-Pekin, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
24:30 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bizart, Shanghai
2001
Living in Time, 29 Contemporary Artists from China, National galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Opening, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, U.S.A.
China Art Archives & Warehouse Opening Exhibition, Beijing
The 1st Chengdu Biennal, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
Ornament & Abstraction, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Towards a New Image, Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Painting,, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou; Sichuan Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
As long as they catch mice..., Munkeruphus Gallery, Mumkerphus, Danmark
Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
2000
Chinese Muren Chinese Walls, Groningen, Netherlands
2000 China-Korea-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Changning Culture and Art Centre, Shanghai
Looking out / Looking in, Art Show 2, East Quad Art Gallery, University of Michigan, U.S.A.
Uncooperative Approach (Fuck Off), Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
1999
Open Channels, The First Collecting Exhibition of Dong Yu Museum of Fine Arts, Dong Yu Museum, Shenyang
Concepts, Color and Passions, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing
Collecting Exhibition, Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Caermersklooster, Belgium
Looking Out/ Looking In, Shanghai Contemporary Art Exhibition, Plug In Contemporary Art Centre, Winnipeg, Canada
BM99, Bienal da Maya, Maya Art Center, Portugal
1998
Every Day, 11th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art etc., Sydney, Australia
Mondrian in China, Art Gallery of Beijing International Palace, Beijing; Shanghai Library, Shanghai; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Jiang Nan, Chinese Contemporary Art, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1997
Quotation Marks, Chinese Contemporary Paintings, National Art Museum, Singapore
In Between Limits, An Aspect of Chinese Contemporary Art, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiungju, Korea
Works by Shanghai Artists, Art Association Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
1996
Shanghai Fax: Let's Talk about Money, International Fax Art Exhibition, Shanghai Huashan Professional School of Art Gallery, Shanghai
Shanghai Abstract Art, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
The First China Oil Painting Society Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing
1st Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
China!, Touring Exhibition, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
1995
Des Pais del Centre, Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain
New Chinese Art: 1990-1994, Vancouver Gallery of Art, Vancouver, Canada, Art Centre, Chicago, U.S.A.
Change, China Contemporary Art, Kuensthalle Goetaplatsen, Goeteborg, Sweden
1994
Abstract Works by Six Artists, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
1993
45th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale - Cardinal Points of the Arts, Venice, Italy
The First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Mao Goes Pop, China Post '89, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Victoria National Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
China Avant-garde, Touring Exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Kunsthall, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Brandts Klaederfabrik, Odense, Denmark; Hildesheim Art Gallery, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, U.K.

1991
Documentary Exhibition of Chinese Art of the 90's, K Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Documentary Exhibition of China Art Research, Beijing; Nanjing; Chongqing; Dongbei Area
1989
China/Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1988
Exhibition of Today's Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
1986
1st Shanghai Youth Grand Fine Arts Exhibition, Shanghai Artist’s Gallery, Shanghai
First Shanghai Concave – Convex Exhibition, Xuhui Cultural Centre, Shanghai
Inauguration Exhibition of the Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
1985
Exhibition of Modern Art by Six Artists, Fudan University, Shanghai