觀空间七周年特别呈现 | 谭平 作品展
Special presentation on the 7th anniversary of Justart Space
Tan Ping Exhibition
地点：广州市天河区员村一横路1号VLAB壹号大院V-Park二楼
主办：觀空间
支持机构：当代唐人艺术中心
Organizer: JUSTART SPACE
Supporting Organization: TANG CONTEMPORARY ART.
Venue: Justart Space, 2/F. V-Park, VLAB NO.1 Compound,First Cross Road, Yuancun, Tianhe, Guangzhou
As one of the leading figures in Chinese abstract art since the 1980s, Tan Ping has provided us with a rich and complex body of examples of how to reshape the grammar, structure, and experimental methods of a medium; in the process, his work has become an important reference in the Chinese contemporary painting scene.
In a painting career spanning nearly 40 years, Tan Ping has witnessed many waves of artistic ideas. In the early 1980s, he engaged with traditional academic realism and naturalism, but after 1984, he moved on to a formal interest in still lifes, landscapes, and figure paintings and the study of Surrealism and Expressionism. In the early 1990s, experiments with blocks of color, line, black and white, spatial sequences, and other materials appeared in a series of prints and oil paintings that began Tan’s visual exploration of abstract art. After 2000, his formal experiments shifted towards a broader range of painted actions, including calligraphy, scrawl, repetition, and layering.
After this point, abstract art was just a vehicle or a tool for Tan Ping. He drew freely from Minimalism, conceptual art, happenings, Fluxus, action painting, and site-specific art to play with the ideas of washing, grafting, and rebirth. From his studies of form, Tan moved toward a study of painting and the mechanisms, conditions, styles, and concepts that produced it. His painting moved from the two-dimensional toward the three-dimensional, toward action, toward the site-specific. He eventually returned to the origin of painting, to the essential and foundational grammar of painting, in an attempt to respond to the medium’s simplest yet most difficult question: What is painting?
Is painting a point, a line, a plane, or a symphony of the three? Is it form or concept, process or result? Is painting the product of rationality, design, and modules, or is it inspired by perception, passion, and spirit? This series of questions informs his philosophy of painting, a set of diverse values and broad visions for painting after realism.
谭平在80年代之后全球当代艺术图景和后现代语境中，赋予了绘画全新的意义，绘画不再是古典和现代主义的延续，而是连接1945年之后当代艺术和东西方文化的不同节点。他将“抽象”这一门类的讨论，引向更为广阔的艺术思考，不是形象上的“抽象”，而是艺术定义上的“抽象”：一个不在写实、具象序列中的抽象，而是开放的、多元的、混杂的，一个无法被定义和概念化的绘画世界。
In the post-1980s context of globalized contemporary art and post-modernism, Tan Ping imbued painting with new meaning. Painting is no longer an extension of classicism or realism; it connects post-war contemporary art and different aspects of Eastern and Western culture. He broadens the discussion of abstract art into a form of artistic reflection. He has become more interested in the artistic definition of abstraction than its formal manifestation. Instead of a mode of abstraction that is neither simply realist nor representational, he examines an open, diverse, and heterogenous world of painting that cannot be defined or conceptualized.
绘画是时间、空间与个人的交汇。这些个人的、现实的、历史的经历，也只为个人所有。然而，谭平在近40年的历程中所秉持的信念与雄心，创造的关于“绘画是什么”的永不停歇的实验，是我们可以共同分享的经验。
Painting is the confluence of time, space, and an individual. Only one person has had these personal, present, and past experiences. However, with conviction and ambition that has lasted nearly 40 years, Tan Ping has created endless experiments that ask, “What is painting?” and offered that to us as a shared experience.
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广州市天河区员村一横路1号VLAB壹号大院
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