Mongolia in Transition
SU XIN-PING
Opens: Saturday Evening November 14th, 5:00-8:30 PM
Exhibition Date: November 14th, 1998 to January 16th, 1999
The eerie and meticulously detailed stone lithographs of Su Xin-Ping depict the native dress and rustic faces of Mongolia where the artist was born and raised.Now a professor at Beijing's prestigious Central Academy of Fine Art, his work ranks among the best of the avant-garde in China today.
Mysterious and quiet the art is illusionary yet naturalistic in appearance. Light and shadow are invented - their intensity and direction a matter of the artist's desires. And over the whole plane runs the logic of non-focusing perspective. Many of the images in this show seem surreal and strange, but strangeness is the reality as modernity encroaches on the simplicity and loneliness of Mongolia.
Professor Su has won several important prizes in Asia. His art has been collected by some of the world's leading museums and is now part of a major exhibition, Inside Out: New Chinese Art at the Asia Society, New York. The show will move to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in early 1999 and then tour North America and Asia.
