•Ding Yi:  Light and Space

Option ONE

Ding Yi: Space and Light (3 sculptures and 2 paintings by one single artist)

Idea: The whole project will be done by one single artist.

Reason: There have been many projects with art at public places in Shanghai in the last few years. Money has been spend, things put in place. But mostly the artworks didn’t get much attention and hardly a building in Shanghai is specially known for the quality of the art.

There is to much compromise in selecting the artworks, the artworks are to scattered, unrelated. Not done in one single spirit, the artworks hardly can add to - or react to – the strong architecture, the artwork remain decoration.

So, Option One is a clear, modern, minimal and daring project where all the artworks are done by one single artist, Ding Yi, perhaps the most important abstract artists in China today.

To give the whole project to a single artist would need a courageous decision, could provoke some discussion, but it would give the Azia Centre a clear artistic identity and underline the architectural unity of the building.

The Idea: Space and Light
 
Ding Yi developed his artworks from the outside to the inner space of the building: from static, massive, 3-dimensional on the street side to more dynamic, light, 2-dimensional next to the lift; from half-old / half-modern at the outside to totally modern and vibrant in the centre.
 
The artwork
A1) 180x180x400cm, 4000kg
B)  180x180x300cm, 2000kg
C)100x100x400 cm, 1800kg
Material: steel plate (8cm wall size, hollow) painted or rusty
 
The Artist: Ding Yi, born 1962, studied at the Shanghai School for Art and Crafts (where he teaches today) and at the Shanghai Art Academy. He has shown in most museums in China, incl. National Gallery in Beijing, Shanghai Art Museum, Guangzhou Art Museum and his works have also been shown widely around the world: e.g. in the Beyeler Foundation, Venice Biennale, Yokohama Triennale etc. He is probably the most radical and important abstract artist in China and is included in almost every survey on Chinese art today. His sculptures stand in the SOHO building in Beijing, in the LianYang Development in Pudong and in Qinghua, Zhejiang.
 
+++  it would be an unique chance for a talented artist in mid career so we can be sure that he would create an exceptional work. The single artist solution can easily be transmitted to the public, journalist etc. and it could put a standard for future projects in Shanghai.
 

Ding Yi Artist Page

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