Fan Yaping’s main works

The works of contemporary Chinese female artists can often be regarded as a "variable magic mirror" - sometimes, it is a flat mirror, illuminating the artist's voice and smile; The microscope promotes and extends certain seemingly insignificant topics; sometimes, it is a convex and concave mirror, constantly adjusting the perspective of the picture; sometimes, it is even a colorful and funny mirror, bringing you imaginative humor. and cheerful; sometimes, it can also be a prism, decomposing the plain natural light source into a diverse world of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, indigo, and purple... Through this mirror, you can see the female artist's From the appearance, you can also feel the soul of the female artist. Those dazzling poems, dreams, and music sway in front of your eyes, echo in your ears, spread in the air, and are filled with lingering charm.

Fan Yaping’s works have such dreamlike qualities. If women are born to dream, then Fan Yaping should be regarded as a woman among women. The transcendence of real life determines that Fan Yaping's paintings contain not only the fragrance of a young girl at her natural age, but also the spiritual connotation that can only be realized by completely immersing oneself in the artistic atmosphere. . The age like a flower, the mind like a flower, the dreams like a flower, and the imagination like a flower run through Fan Yaping's creative process. It makes people feel that Fan Yaping's works do not necessarily have to be like this, but they have to be like that. . The implication is that in those works that are inextricably linked to Fan Yaping's real life, but are not completely replicas of real life, the audience feels more like the "dream" that Fan Yaping embodies on the screen. feelings.

Fan Yaping’s dream is a stolen dream. As a female artist, Fan Yaping uses the unique reserve of women to show the audience her smooth steps and gentle poetry in the "Inception" she weaves for herself. Fan Yaping’s dream is to pursue dreams. It is to start a dream from a place where there is no dream. It is calling the dream from the place where the dream is lost. It is a sincere invitation to the dream from the place where it was discovered. Fan Yaping’s dream is also to pursue dreams. That kind of wandering mental state, that kind of eclectic telepathy, that kind of artistic feeling that can only be explained clearly in a dream state, and at the same time can never be explained clearly, gives Fan Yaping's artistic space, It brings a different kind of atmosphere.

If we say, art is a conscious choice. Rather, art is the natural expression of spiritual quality. This is exactly what we see in Fan Yaping's artistic works. Sometimes, she can be a real Fan Yaping; sometimes, she can also be fictional, exaggerated, imaginary, extended, changed, rewritten, deduced... In the process of both reality and fantasy , we see that there is a Fan Yaping who steals, seeks and pursues dreams. Fan Yaping's works are mainly presented through easel paintings and conceptual photography. Her oil painting "Woman" and conceptual photography "Decameron" series focus on the social identity of urban modern women. She attempts to discover her own true inner world in virtual dramatic scenes. In her works, there are often images of coldness, confusion, alienation, loneliness, enchantment, and ambiguity that people can feel. She makes judgments with her unique female identity and keen perspective.

Fan Yaping is striving to find some connection between female art and contemporary art in her creation, hoping to find some answer for women in the real society through female art. In his surveys and writings in the late 1980s, Arthur Danto was somewhat surprised to discover that “if one were to select the most innovative artists of this particular period—most of them would be women.” Feminist art has always been an issue explored in contemporary art. I also hope that Fan Yaping will use her identity as a woman in her experiments in contemporary art to find newer creative reasons for combining female art with contemporary artistic expression. When I first saw Fan Yaping's "Growth Series" of more than twenty consecutive photos, I was quite surprised. What surprises me is not her courage to leave her printmaking major and venture into the field of oil painting, nor the valuable exploration of techniques shown in her works, but the theme, her continued focus on the hidden side of female growth. You know, in the field of contemporary art, as far as I know, very few people seem to express it.

I immediately thought of an interesting book by Freud called "The Psychology of Love." When the Chinese translation of this book was introduced to the mainland from Taiwan in the late 1970s, the title was once translated as "Girls' Psychology". The title of the book matches the content, because Freud was indeed talking about the many problems faced by adolescent girls. As far as I know, this book aroused some criticism when it was published, because openly discussing the psychology of girls is somewhat taboo in a patriarchal society. Especially lifting the veil and diluting the mystery will definitely make many men feel uninterested and lose the initial pleasure of peeping at women.

Of course, Freud has nothing to do with feminism. On the contrary, he has always been a staunch defender of male power, and regards this power as natural and the necessary foundation for building human civilization. . Precisely because of his stance, his theory has been criticized by feminists. The review of black and white woodcuts begins with the series of works "Sheets". The mysterious metaphors and multiple messages of "Sheets" make us feel a continuous spiritual climax.

The author uses a variety of rough but delicate imprinting textures to convey to us a certain orderly throbbing and trembling. There are many grotesque main images in the picture that flip with the twists and turns of these textures and lines... These strange and powerful symbols Steeped in suppressed passion, it seems to tell us that the author has been looking for some kind of pure and complete expression, but this hopeless pursuit is always a tormenting helpless desire, just like the rain that never fills up the lake.

Compared with natural reality and social reality, spiritual reality eliminates superficial factors and is therefore closer to the essence. In black and white woodcuts, the scenes of the natural world are dissolved in black and white and combined into forms in the mind. The flashy world is condensed into pure black and white. The condensed illusion replaces the gorgeous reality. This is emotion and idea. The process of returning to the original and simple state is also the essence of Wang Yuanqi's "coloring method" quoted above. Cutting out the complex and simplifying it, using concise, concise and plain language forms to reproduce the colorful inner landscape and convey pure abstract concepts has inherent advantages for black and white woodcuts. In the face of this romantic and solemn black and white artistic conception, who can resist its temptation? The author's formal narrative and the reader's interpretation and experience are like the soliloquy of Freud's sleepwalker. Although they seem fragmented, the charm of the artistic work lies in this, and the excitement stirred up after the work is completed. The ripples can continue to spread. The video creation "The Decameron" is about the exploration of female art. As an artistic trend and artistic phenomenon, female art has quietly appeared on the stage of art history and will make a heavy mark in art history. 1998 The "Century·Women" art exhibition held in Beijing in 2008 was a landmark event. Internationally, female art has always been a creative subject that artists are passionate about.

In the past few years, I have been studying the meaning of semiotics and iconography in schemata. The set of works "The Decameron" is a carrier of symbols. Semiotics has been developing since the 1960s. The term "semiotics" is all the rage in European academia and is derived from the Greek "semeion", meaning "sign" (mark, sign, signal, gesture). Symbols can refer to things and objects that exist or do not exist. The research scope of semiotics is much broader than other modes of analysis because it studies the existence and life of all symbols within society. Ancient Chinese art is a collection of totems, but its impact on the Chinese nation cannot be covered by historical vegetation. The symbol of this symbol also exists beyond the spiritual realm.

"The Decameron" is a story about mankind's "original sin", with ten chapters. This set of works combines Chinese and Western aesthetic concepts through symbols, symbols, metaphors and other techniques, and displays Lolita-style clothing, which is currently the most popular among European, American, Japanese and Chinese girls; today’s cartoon generation who grew up in online games The description of the game hall; the elaboration of Shamian, the most historically representative colonial architectural culture; the revelation of the confused souls of the new generation growing up under gorgeous masks, etc., through this series of images that people are accustomed to, but difficult to express The scene shows the different spiritual levels and living conditions of contemporary girls, which are both modern and classic, both immature and mature, both sexy and pure, both reverie and confinement, both fragile and strong, both doubtful and persistent, close and yet close. Feelings and thoughts that are out of reach. This also completes the representational function of symbols and images in creation. Fan Yaping's "angel doll" attracted great attention from the art and collection circles once it was exhibited. The doll is a movable sculpture that took several years to make and is based on a childhood dream. China has 5,000 years of profound traditional culture and once led the world in history. However, the generation that grew up in the 1980s was impacted by American and Japanese culture and surrounded by various cartoons, TV movies, and films. Therefore, Fan Yaping determined to create dolls with oriental beauty. , as a carrier of culture, and also as a spiritual companion for lonely children in modern civilization. The angel doll has ever-changing shapes, exquisite makeup and exquisite clothing, and its joints can move freely like a real person. The dolls are as big as a palm, but are as fine as the corners of the eyes, eyelashes, mouth, nails and nipples. Each doll has a unique makeup, with subtle color changes and rich and colorful expressions. It is a masterpiece of art among dolls. The German Faber-Castell brand with a history of 250 years was surprised when seeing Fan Yaping's works that no artist had ever used products to such an extreme.

In the work, the artist satisfies every girl's desire for her childhood, letting the unrealizable dreams in real life play roles on the dolls, pure, sexy, well-behaved, and rebellious. , dreamy, melancholy... The artist also gives life to each doll. They all have their own names, their own wonderful homes, and unique styles and clothes. There is a "doll complex" in the heart of every girl, which is the secret object of confiding in the girl's heart during the period of growth and fission; for this reason, Fan Yaping created the dreamlike large-scale installations "Dreamland" and "Angel" based on her own dreams. and "Fairy Tale", which have been well received by the collection community at the Venice Biennale. Viewers greatly let their hearts fly in these art spaces, allowing every owner to realize their dream self. Life

Fan Yaping's "Life" series of works are inspired by her transformation from a girl to a mother. It is not only a gestation process of natural life, but also an exploration of the miracle of life. of praise.

Her sensitive artistic nerve constantly captures and grasps every most touching moment in her life, and she completes her tribute to life through various forms such as oil painting, sculpture, and ink painting.

Present (Old Boy)

The "Old Boy" series vividly depicts the spiritual growth of modern men. Many of the works are based on their husbands, reflecting the current social trends. Family, friendship, love and the loneliness and hesitation that the metropolis brings to people. It softens the wisdom of Eastern and Western art, draws creative inspiration and expression methods from calligraphy and murals of traditional Chinese culture, and creates its own unique oriental ink painting techniques, which are perfectly interpreted through various forms of expression such as oil paintings, sculptures, and ink. work.

Belief

Fan Yaping’s mother practiced Buddhism and had a deep understanding of religious beliefs since she was a child. The “Buddha’s Light” and “Holy Spirit” series of works were created during her years. Born from thinking about religion, philosophy and science. The work finds a power between abstraction and figuration. By comparing and studying Eastern and Western art philosophies and theologies, the artist finds the unity and individuality in the divinity of the East and the West, and evokes people's thinking about faith through his works.

Love in life and death

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Fan Yaping, who was born in a family of art and education, had a wide range of hobbies since she was a child. In middle school, she dabbled in East and West under the influence of her teacher. He has a very high appreciation and cultivation of Chinese literature, philosophy, classical music, etc., which laid a solid foundation for subsequent development. Fan Yaping has been backpacking around various places since she was a teenager. Influenced by traditional Chinese painting and literature, Fan Yaping in her early years was fond of creations that express human nature and nature. Her works have a solid foundation in academic skills. With free aura and majestic momentum, this is her artistic presentation of thinking about the life of the universe and the future of mankind through meditation.

ARTANGELDOLL

Artangeldoll is a doll with oriental beauty created by artist Fan Yaping based on her childhood dream for ten years. Every girl has a "doll complex" in her heart. It is The girl's inner secret confidant during the period of growth and fission. Each different makeup and style brings about changes in the character, satisfying the dreams of life roles that ordinary people cannot realize. The joints move freely like real people. They are exquisite works of art among dolls. The artist uses figurative works to present the intangible growth process. Among them, the double-joint technology obtained the Chinese national patent in 2011.

Dreamland

In the black space carefully created by the artist, the oil paintings and dolls are refracted by the mirror, presenting a blurred dream space. The viewer walks through the exhibition, and the opening of the exhibition The interactive art performance shows the artist's amazing creativity and expressive power in easel painting, space creation and artistic performance.

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This exhibition consists of three parts: oil paintings, installations and dolls. The exhibition at the Palazzo Mora in Venice, Italy, is both contemporary and has Eastern and Western classical charm. Among them The installation of one hundred dolls shows the various aspects of people in real life, giving people space to think about reality.