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12/5/2006

Ma Desheng

University Museum and Art Gallery - UMAG, Hong Kong

Faceted Symphonies. Paintings

As a part of le French May, the Museum will be presenting an exhibition of paintings by the Chinese artist Ma Desheng who resides in Paris. The exhibition includes 30 works from Ma’s latest stone series in acrylic, and his earlier woodblock prints and ink paintings, dating from 1979 to the present.

Born in Beijing in 1952, Ma worked as a draughtsman during the Cultural Revolution. He was a leading proponent of the Stars (Xingxing) group of artists who first exhibited in Beijing in 1979, the year China started its open-door policy. This art group pioneered individualistic and expressionist art forms leading to China's modernist art movement. Ma's woodblock prints, created mainly during the Stars Movement, are characterised by their hard-edged cuts and bold black-and-white contrast inspired by the Realist and Expressionist manner of the West. Ma's ink painting began in 1982, and feature abstract landscapes and female nudes.

The full and imposing images reflect his interest in sculptural forms, ink rubbings of pictorial on Han bricks, and the traditional ink convention of contrasting void and solid areas. Ma's ink paintings were first introduced to overseas audiences in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1983, and have been widely presented in museums and galleries in Japan, Europe and the USA ever since. Ma moved to Paris in 1986 and was one of the first Chinese ink painters to be sponsored by the French Cultural Department to exhibit in France. In 2002, Ma began creating gigantic stone motifs in acrylic on canvas. The stones are depicted with snow-like textures as from sacred Chinese mountains, yet whimsically composed as human figures and gestures to prompt the question of whether "a stone is a stone" from the audience.

Ma is also a poet whose works are often performed in public and several published in Chinese and French. A fully-illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

Mr Jean-Pierre The'bault, Consul-General of France in Hong Kong, Ms Catherine Kwai, sponsor and curator of the show, and Professor Kam Louie, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong will officiate at the opening ceremony on Friday 12 May at 6 pm. Members of the press are warmly invited to meet the artist.

University Museum and Art Gallery
University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong
Hours: Monday to Saturday 9.30 am to 6.00 pm; Sundays 1.30 to 5.30 pm. The Museum is closed on public holidays.
Admission is free

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