One horizontal and vertical, he painted for 34 years

Shanghai artist Ding Yi,

Known as the pioneer of China's abstract painting school,

In the late 1980s,

He created with one horizontal and vertical "ten",

No one was optimistic at the time, and no one could understand it,

But it became famous in the 1990s.

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Pioneer artist identity,

He used to be a toy factory worker.

I like cigars and like to collect antique furniture.

Ding Yi has already been well -known internationally, 34 years of painting "ten",

He held exhibitions around the world, and his works were by the British Museum of London

Paris Pomi Dudu Art Center Collection,

Even the world's top brand Hermes also asked him to design silk scarves.

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Ding Yi is provided in Tibet Pictures: Wanma Zassi

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After Shanghai unblocking, Ding Yi accepted an exclusive interview

June and August this year,

Ding Yi has two exhibitions in Tibet and Qingdao.

A interview Ding Yi,

Listen to him about the sealing life of Shanghai,

Last year's spiritual exploration of Tibet,

And the story of an artist becoming an artist.

Written article: Chen Qinqin

Responsible editor: Chen Ziwen

In April this year, Ding Yi had a birthday in Shanghai's sealing control. He is 60 years old and does not want to remember his age, but only wants to draw.

This idea, only one sketch and two collection of paper albums in the home became particularly strong. In the first month, he took a little time every night to draw "Shanghai Seal Control Diary".

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The first page of "Shanghai Seal Control Diary" painted by Ding Yi, the first day of Puxi Sealing Control

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During the Shanghai sealing period, Ding Yi's creation on the collection of paper

On April 1, 2022, the first page of the diary, the first day of Puxi sealing and control, the 8 -opened sketchbook is blue, purple, orange, and yellow blocks like the night scenery of the sky. In the future, the color tone is sometimes dark. Suddenly bright, it may not be related to the current situation, but just apply a little bit.

On the 5.73 -meter -long collection of paper albums, it is his most classic "Ten Show" series. Now, it has been painted for 34 years.

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After the unblocking Shanghai, Ding Yi returned to the studio to continue creating

After the painting materials were exhausted, Ding Yi, 60, "felt very anxious". The new exhibition was in front of him. He felt that he had to continue working, and he asked his friends to send him to Qingpu District to make a temporary studio. In addition to eating two meals, In addition to sleeping, Ding Yi stood for more than ten hours every day, like art "workers", and like a diligent clock watchmaker -in Ding Yi's view, painting is a very precise job.

In the empty exhibition hall, the world is extremely popular: at this moment, artists only work with canvas. On the 31st day, he finally waited for unblocking. He walked out of the temporary studio and felt very brisk. This month was not deserted.

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"Ten Show I" 1988

Ding Yi painted the cross. In 1988, Ding Yi was 26 years old. He was still studying undergraduates at the Department of Chinese Painting Department of Shanghai University. Three "ten shows" works were born: a young man announced his separation with the mainstream.

As the technical terms and symbols of the printing industry, the word "ten" does not make any sense and does not convey any image. For Ding Yi, "Ten" is just a stroke, "Like Cezan's like to use a slope, Van Gogh likes to use short lines."

Later, in addition to the word "ten", the reversing symbol "X" was added, pasted together, and turned into a "rice" character, constantly evolving inside a one -inch grid.

In the end of the 1980s, in the context of splashing art and political Pop, Ding Yi accurate and rational working methods were rare in the Chinese art world.

At that time, regardless of politics and reality, Ding Yi's exploration was a bit like scientific research in painting, and was not understood by the mainstream.

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Ding Yi was in front of his work at the scene of Venice Biennale, 1993

The real story may be related to a person in his 20s, youthful and vigorous, and he wants to be an artist in the future. How can he believe himself?

In the face of this issue, Ding Yi's former student, the post -90s young artist Tian Yan, remember that the teacher said a period of past, and this story also made her recover her confidence again at the time of the most embarrassing.

In 1993, many overseas exhibitions held by Chinese contemporary art selected Ding Yi, including the "Chinese Modern Art Exhibition" and the Venice Biennale of the Berlin World Cultural Palace. A lonely name is almost no picture of the work (the exhibition album is generally composed of the works of the exhibitors and the on -site map). This means that when the West needs to identify some "Chinese experience", Ding Yi is excluded.

Although Ding Yiping's work at that time, although his work was professional, he "will not become a star of Chinese art."

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Ding Yi and Yu Youhan and Zhang Zhiquan at the "Today Art Exhibition" site 1987-1988

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"13 pieces of the sketch" propylene, pencil, paper, multiple sizes 1987-1989

He told Tian Yan that this made him even more determined to go, instead of feeling frustrated- "It must be to watch 20 years forward, and then look at it for 20 years, not just looking at it."

After a period of extremely lonely years, Ding Yi quickly ushered in a wider recognition.

Tian Yan's most impressed by Ding Yi's most simple experience is: To become an artist, the first thing that needs to learn is firm. In other words, no matter how the outside world evaluates, what you draw, what you do, you have to believe it is right. In addition to the identity of the artist, Ding Yi has been a teacher for 25 years.

When graduating from undergraduate, other students went to the publishing house. He wanted to have a cold and summer vacation and more free time to draw, but there was no hope for staying in school. , I will come back ", and finally seek a faculty.

At that time, I was young, and I was not married. I was in a dormitory. I was a cafeteria for three meals. At night, I took a board to paint in the office for 16 years. It is always a help lecture. I have not comment on any title. Ding Yi feels that these are "wasteful time."

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Ding Yi planned fax exhibition with Zhou Tiehai, Shi Yong, Shen Fan, and Chen Yanyin. At that time, Ding Yi was already a spokesman for the help of Shanghai Craft Academy.

The choice of teacher identity is really a plan. When he was young, he didn't want to be a professional artist. The easiest thing was to get life and not let the painting fall into passive. In the future, I stayed at the Shanghai Academy of Visual Art for nine years, founded two majors in public art and comprehensive design, and brought the last students. In 2015, he finally "got rid of" all social affairs.

Ding Yi as a teacher is a little serious in the eyes of the students. On the podium, he rarely laughed, but he was very mild in private. As long as the students were looking for him, he was willing to spend time. He is doing contemporary art, so as long as he teaches, contemporary art is always the main line.

He didn't like "good students", and even felt that "the better the students did not play." In his eyes, a little bit lower, and a person with a personality "rushed out".

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In June 2022, Ding Yi created new works in the studio

When teaching the design department, he will see some talents on the students. The so -called talent, that is, "see the details", the very delicate and faint thing, but there are very few children who can see the details. Instead, see where the two are connected. "

As for art, judging whether a child can take this road in the future, he has only one consideration standard, not genius, but a will -a kind of love for art.

Ding Yi saw this kind of love on the young artist Zhong Lexing. In 2014, Zhong Lexing led the first art award in his life John Moore Award, and Ding Yi was one of the judges.

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Ding Yi and Zhong Lexing encountered the shadow in the Hong Kong Art Expo 2015

At the top dinner of the Sheraton Hotel in Shanghai, the Hunan people Zhongle Star had the courage to add the courage and Ding Yi WeChat, but did not dare to interact. He laughed and said, "one is a big -name artist, and the other is the‘ 愣 上海 上海 ”from other places."

In summer, Zhong Lexing painted in the studio and prepared for the upcoming British exhibition. The so -called studio is actually a humble house rented from the farmers. The accumulated debris and oil paintings are mixed, and the ground is covered with thin dust.

When he saw Ding Yi's circle of friends, a new dynamic of bronze in the Hubei Provincial Museum, he sent a message to Ding Yi very "Tang Tu" and invited him to the studio to see.

Zhong Lexing quickly received the reply. Ding Yi asked the address, across Hankou, took a half -hour car, passed through the bumpy trail, and came to him. work".

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Zhong Lexing's rental house and studio in Zhangliang Village, Wuhan

Zhong Lexing always remembers his panic and surprise at the time. He was unknown, and Ding Yi, a well -known artist, was willing to come to his studio in the wilderness. There is a sense of distress, looking around, there is only a clean chair. Although it is broken, there is a sponge pad.

Ding Yi did not dislike it, sat down on a short chair, ordered cigars, ready to look at painting. Wuhan's summer weather is sweltering, and there is no air conditioning or electric fan room. The art brings a rare coolness.

In the 8 -year exchanges, Zhong Lexing always felt that he was a bit "trembling". He felt that Ding Yi had all his imagination and expectations of the great artist: firm, rational, rigorous, and insight, "It is almost God, which can be seen at a glance. I don't shake what I do, and I am completely convinced. "

Also, he remembers the deepest expression that Ding Yi told him, "Being art is actually a long and long way."

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Ding Yi is provided in the picture in Everest Base Camp: Wanmazsey

In the winter of 2021, Ding Yi stayed in Tibet for 10 days. This was his third time in Tibet.

Visit Baiju Temple, Xialu Temple, Sakya Temple, and Gonggaqu Temple all the way, and obsessed with the Zizhen of Tibetan murals. The strongest feeling is that the contrast between yellow, purple, red, and green on these 600 years ago, such a forward -looking, so modernist, far from the color theory summarized by Cezanne and Matisse.

It also went to the miracle -like natural landscape, Yang Zhuo Yongwong's Holy Lake and Carolla Glacier, walked all the way, rushed all the way, climbing to the Everest Camp before sunset. The documentary director of his peers, when he heard Ding Yi's urgent panting sound, persuaded him to slow down, Ding Yi could not stop, and the excitement completely filled him.

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In the 1980s, artist Ding Yi provided pictures in Tibet: Ding Yi Studio. © © 乙.

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In the 1980s, Ding Yi looked at Mount Everest pictures on the side of Dingtian's highway: Ding Yi Studio. © © 乙. Thirty years ago, he and his classmates went to Tibet to sketch. They had to take a few days and nights of the train, but they missed the chance to climb Mount Everest. They only looked at the side of Dingri County Highway. Less than 30 years old.

Today, this is the first base camp at 5,400 meters of altitude, so I watched so close. The sunset sinks in front of the eyes, the sky curtain turns from purple to dark blue, one stars one by one, flashes in the sky, the whole world is silent, and people's breathing sounds are clearly heard between the snow mountains. At a certain moment, Ding Yi felt that he didn't know where he was, and the reflection between the snow and the snow was in the Everest in the distance in the distance.

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"Ten Show 2022-B19" Tibetan container, color powder, charcoal, pencil

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"⼗⽰ 2022-B3" contains container, mineral pigment, color powder, charcoal, pencil

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"⼗⽰ 2022-7" linen noodles mineral pigment, color powder, charcoal

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"2021-B16" on paper on paper and pencils on paper

After returning to Shanghai, Ding Yi began to create. There were almost 9 works, all of which surrounded Mount Everest. He used the word "ten" to repeat what he saw at that time -in the darkness, the flashing starry sky and Shenshan Essence

It also brings back many Tibetan mineral pigments, sprinkle pigments on paper or cloth with sieves, and then fix it with glue to do painting experiments.

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Ten Show 2022-3 The Acrylic Woodcut Sub-title "King Kong" on the wooden board

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"Shifang: Ding Yi in Tibet" exhibition site

From 1988 to the present, the "Ten Show" series are almost all numbers, the name of the work is the year number, a simple time and label. In this batch of works in Tibet, the two works have a sub -title, one "King Kong" and one "Mandarin". The color of "Tancheng" borrowed from the Tibetan murals. When painting "King Kong", he rose up in his mind with the power of Vajrayana, to interpret Tibet's majestic and strong.

Tibet's attraction to Ding Yi is spiritual, the religious atmosphere of Tibet, and the kind of ultra -surpassing things makes him miss. Ding Yi does not believe in teaching, but feels that "art itself may be a religion." In the final analysis, what you want to explore is the problem of life goals.

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In the winter of 2021, Ding Yi provided in Tibet Material: Wanmazi

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On July 10, 2022, Ding Yi arrived from Shanghai to Lhasa and saw his own exhibition scene. The picture shows the Lhasa street view he took.

What is Ding Yi's life goal? This was clear when he was in his 20s. He had to take a long and long way to become an artist. In other words, his ideal most outstanding artist, now he has become, but this road has not been finished.

For more than 30 years painting "ten", life has reached 60 years old, and Ding Yi is waiting for the new possibility. Including exhibitions in Tibet is also a "mental attempt". Now, he stands on the pass of the turning period and is looking for a new direction. But where to go in the next stage, Ding Yi has not been set.

Some people say that Ding Yi has been changing, and some people say that Ding Yi is unchanged.

"Many people don't know. It will be painful to think that you have always painted the word" ten "?" Ding Yi's experience was completely opposite. He felt that the "ten" character was endless.

In the limitation of the grid and the thickness of the thickness, it is necessary to find the skills to let the vitality appear within one grid, "to find a way not to die." Each color of the upper layer, the lines go to the first layer, the second layer, the third layer, the fourth layer, the effect is different.

Ding Yi never draws sketches, so that it also appeared by chance. He watched the classical painter Angel's "Da Vinci's Death". Except for the size, the sketch is almost the same as the original painting, which will make him feel that painting is a boring thing.

For more than 30 years, he devoted himself to a very high -intensity work in order to reveal these. He felt that he was full of passion so far, because "every hour of work, he went further from the truth." For Ding Yi, painting is constantly seeing the truth.

He also has an occupational disease. He painted the pose for ten years, and his eyes were broken. In 2015, he joined the woodcut technique, so that his hands were always accompanied by thick cocoons and wounds of different sizes. This is part of the artist experience. However, there is also a way to deal with it. He feels that when the body is unbearable, art may have the motivation to innovate.

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In 2017, Ding Yi took a group photo at the 90th birthday dinner

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In 2020, the Catzha Shanghai Exhibition site

Ding Yi rarely talks about age. In the face of creation, it is unrelated to the old.

In 2017, he held an exhibition in New York. Artist Alex Kart invited him to his 90th birthday banquet through a gallery. Ding Yi is very shocking. "I think a 90 -year -old man is because he is an artist, so he is still full of passion."

In fact, he was in many Western artists, such as ANSELM KIEFER, Sean Scully, Alex Katz, Louis Buljia (Alex Katz), Alex Katz, Louise Bourgeois) See the sustainability of art, the vitality and enthusiasm, "This will make you feel that it may be the best time now." ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲

French artist Louis Burgoia

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German artist Anssem Kife

In the abstract art world, he has the appreciation of his peers, such as the minimalist abstract artist Frank Stella, who likes Frank Tesla's black hard borderpiece, "very sharp, brave, destroyed by destroying The sharp sense of things. "

He also likes German abstract painter Gerhard Richter, especially the period of Gehad Richter's oil painting.

But as a peer, he will look at them very three -dimensional. "A artist is not good at all periods. He will have the best stage. If this stage is missing, it will not be so great. So see the success of an artist, depending on the success of an artist, depending on the success of an artist, it depends on the success of an artist. It depends on the success of an artist. His complete process, look at his hole card. "

As for Ding Yi's own card, he "doesn't know what it is", because the road is still being explored.

But he already knows what a artist should do: "Many people love art throughout their lives, but you don't know these. You must objectively analyze your possibilities and understand your advantages."

He felt that the only thing he was more fortunate was that at a very early time, he knew that artists needed diligence. "If you feel very relaxed after painting, this may not be a good work, but if you are exhausted after painting, you will even fall down. This painting must be attractive."

Every painting of Ding Yi is exhausted. When a painting is finished, the second picture starts the next day. This is a process of almost no pause.

It is very hard to do art, but it is the best experience in the world. He feels that he has been looking for "God" in painting, and this must be completely immersed in creation before he can find it.

Part of the material provides:

Dingyi Studio Ideaa 30,000 Mazasi Yoshimoto Art Center

Lu Yinghua, Zhong Lexing, Tian Yan, GIN, and Feng Jingfan also helped this report

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