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106 譚平 b.1960 Tan Ping

ೌᕚ Untitled
Ꮐдɢ੹ ೥̺ Acrylic on canvas
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ɚ㖼ɓɞϋЪ 100 × 80 cm. 39 /8 × 31 /2 in.
Painted in 2018
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Tan Ping 2018 ( ̛ɨ ) Signed in pinyin and dated on bottom right
LITERATURE
̈و 2023, Tan Ping 1972 – 2022, Wei Gallery, Hong Kong.
2023 ϋdᗈ̻ 1972 { 2022‘dᕧ೥఼d࠰ಥd p. 468
ୋ 468 ࠫ
EXHIBITED
࢝ᚎ 18 – 20 Jan 2019, Tan Ping solo booth at Taipei
2019 ϋ 1 ˜ 18 ˚Ї 20 ˚d̨̏຅˾ᖵஔ௹ᚎ Dangdai Art and Ideas, Amanda Wei Gallery, Taipei
ึdᕧ೥఼࢝Зd̨̏ PROVENANCE
Ը๕ Amanda Wei Gallery, Hong Kong
࠰ಥᕧ೥఼ Acquired directly by present important private Asian
ତԭݲࠠࠅӷɛᔛ࢕ٜટᒅІɪࠑԸ๕ collector from the above

HKD 200,000 – 400,000
USD 25,600 – 51,300

ᗈ̻ೌ ᕚ‘dᏀдɢ੹೥̺d120 Ò 120 cmd
2018 ϋdשርϓʹᄆ 819,000 ʩಥ࿆

repeatedly, similar to the repetitive process in printmaking. The bright scarlet hue in the painting is overlaid on top of a
Through cyclic application, overlap, construction, and watery grey blue. In every seam and crevice of the connection,
deconstruction, he buries the initial imagery layer by layer, one can faintly discern traces of the former transparent black,
only to reconstruct it and bring forth new life in an unceasing clear blue, and snow grey, with the quietly expressive white,
process. His works are full of dramatic tension. Untitled is one implying the once real and now untraceable chromaticity and
of his remarkable pieces, embodying the artist’s courage and obscurity. The central brightness of tangerine orange extends
passion to face the past and start anew. infinitely outward like a light source, transforming into a finely
Amidst Scorching Sunlight, It Perseveres without Yielding rounded and iconic yellow that drifts toward the edge of the
canvas, illuminating all the deeply buried hues. The surface of
Diverging from the tranquil colour palette often seen in Tan the painting appears to have been scraped by a palette knife,
Ping’s works, this piece breaks the coldness with a circle with lines of varying thickness converging under the light, and
bursting out of the upper part of the canvas, exuding warm pigments flowing freely, gradually emerging in the radiance,
vitality. The lines are like diverse musical instruments freely particularly weightless, like boundless passion emanating
and joyously playing a symphony, splitting and revolving, from the calm background of life. As Tan Ping said, “My works
progressing layer by layer, and ultimately merging into an are like human history, having undergone natural destruction
expressive harmony. It echoes what Dr. Bartomeu Marí and deliberate devastation, yet we can still see and feel the
Ribas, the director of Barcelona Museum of Contemporary traces and atmosphere of the times.” For him, art is a “present
Art, said: “Tan Ping’s works started from the painterly continuous tense,” and in each moment of gathering and
type and transited to a theatrical effect. He dealt with the dispersing, he realized eternity.
relationship among the image, object, and space perfectly.”
Careful observation of the work reveals the artist’s thoughts The journey of life is full of twists and turns, but pain eventually
hidden beneath the covered colours. The colours transition becomes a memory, buried in happy times. All things are
from vibrant to withering, breaking free from the constraints beautiful, warming at the centre as the ultimate thoughts on
of painting. Each concealed layer, like the farewell and life conveyed in Untitled, Like the sentence in Little Dream
reappearance of a movement in music, instantly fades away. Garden,“Let us bear the desolation and fear that arise from
love and move forward with composure.”

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