Chen Ping

Lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania, graduated from Guangzhou Academy of fine arts, China. Artist, Chen Ping seeks to expose and return to the beginning of cultural values by re-examining the relationship between people, their environment and animals by discussing through his artistic practice three main themes, time, space and existence.

Chen Ping is technically accustomed to traditional Chinese calligraphy methods and has developed this to create masterful, abstract paintings, morphing reality and revelling in ancient mythology. Chen ping reminds us and deepens our understanding of core values about the human condition with his visual figurative depictions contextualised with myth.

Ping has been exhibited internationally and is held in many major private and public collections. Career highlights include, in 2014 a book consisting of Chen’s paintings titled ’unseen mountain’ was published and given as a gift to Chinese president Xi Jinping by the Tasmanian Government, in 2013 and 2015 Chen exhibited as part of The Venice Biennale’s Personal Structures Exhibition. Other projects include the Fujiang Museum, Expo Milano, Museum of Guangzhou. Major private collectors of Chen’s work includes White Rabbit Collection, Sydney, Popev Collection, Russia, Copezoulos Family, Greece.

My practice brings together two ancient Chinese systems of thought and visual language: the I Ching and oracle bone script. The I Ching offers a structure of transformation through Yin and Yang, broken and unbroken lines, while oracle bone script preserves some of the earliest traces of human attempts to give form to experience through signs. I approach both not as historical reconstruction, but as living generative systems. Through painting, marks move between writing, image, body, landscape and abstraction, allowing past and future to occupy the same pictorial space. Influenced by Carl Jung’s idea of archetypes and by Stephen Hawking’s reflections on the direction of time, I explore whether memory can move across time rather than simply forward. The paintings become fields where ancient symbols, contemporary perception and imagined futures interchange. In this process, writing becomes painting, painting becomes memory, and time itself becomes fluid and reversible for us today.

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