展覽地點｜Exhibition Location
拉脫維亞「羅斯科博物館」
Rothko Museum, Latvia
羅斯科博物館與魏畫廊榮幸地宣布，藝術家譚平將於 2024 年 5 月 31 日至 8 月 25 日在歐洲拉脫维亞「羅斯科博物館」舉辦重要大型展覽《往來:譚平的 藝術》。這次展覽是對他作為藝術家多重身份的致敬;他在北京和柏林接受藝術教 育，因此他的作品融合了歐洲和亞洲元素 —— 包括馬克·羅斯科的作品亦對他的創 作生涯產生了深刻的影響。這次大型展覽是羅斯科博物館的夏季首展，在此之後，譚 平還將在德國科布倫茲「路德維希博物館」舉辦另一場歐洲展覽。
我們誠邀各界藝術人士和關注譚平的藏家參加於 5 月 31 日在羅斯科博物館 的開幕式，共襄盛舉。
策展人 — 菲力浦·多德在展覽圖錄的第一百頁中寫到:「譚平的藝術兼具世間的智 慧與感官的愉悅，同時也對一種古老卻依然強大的正統觀念(此等觀念在諸多藝術 史及當代泛歷史領域的書寫中比比皆是)提出了挑戰......生於中國、受教於北京和 柏林的譚平用自己的藝術提醒人們，這世間最迷人的藝術必須能夠對紛繁複雜的當 下世界做出回應，這樣的藝術往往需要承受來自不同地域和傳統的多重洗禮。 而我 們的當下正是此等藝術最當閃耀之時。」
作為本次展覽的題目，《往來》揭示了貫穿譚平藝術生涯始終的不竭創造力。在教育背 景橫跨北京和柏林的同時，譚平的藝術也從版畫跨越到繪畫之後又回歸版畫，從具象 轉向抽象，從小尺幅變為大尺幅，從極簡邁向極繁，又從繪畫走向了空間與行為藝術。
1989 年柏林牆倒塌時，譚平正在柏林。因而，他在作品中一直在努力囊括事物的對立 面，並執著於探索邊界以外的藝術與生活 —— 其中包括心理、社會及審美的邊界。
在長達 40 年的藝術實踐中，他始終探索於繪畫、版畫、多媒體、設計等多個領 域。譚平的展覽遍及歐美世界，作品被中國美術館、上海美術館、波特蘭美術 館、路德維希博物館、亞利桑那州立大學美術館等國內外重要機構收藏。
The Rothko Museum and Wei Gallery are pleased to announce that the artist
Tan Ping will have a major exhibition “Back and Forth: The Art of Tan Ping” at the Rothko Museum in Latvia from May 31st to August 25th, 2024. This exhibition honours Tan Ping's hybrid identity as an artist; not only was he educated in Beijing and Berlin, but his work fuses European and Asian elements – including the work of Mark Rothko. After this major exhibition, which will be the premiere show during the summer season at the Rothko Museum, the artist will have another European show at the Museum Ludwig, Koblenz in Germany.
We are pleased to invite those with a passion for art including Tan Ping’s collectors to attend the opening ceremony of “Back and Forth” on May 31st at the Rothko Museum.
The curator Philip Dodd has said in the 100page catalogue that accompanies the exhibition:
“ Tan Ping's sophisticated and sensuous art challenges the tired but powerful orthodoxy visible in certain kinds of art history and in many contemporary accounts of wider historical developments that we are destined to live a silo existence where 'our' cultures are only contaminated (rather than enriched) by those of others.......Born in China and educated in Beijing and Berlin, Tan Ping is making art that is a salutary reminder that often the most arresting art - the kind that can respond to the intertwined complexity of our world - does indeed belong, but to various places and to a variety of traditions at the same time. Never has such art been needed more than at present.”
“Back and Forth”, the title of this exhibition, captures the restless inventiveness of Tan Ping's life as an artist. He has moved from woodcut to acrylic and back again, from figuration to abstraction, from diminutive to large-scale, from minimalist to maximalist, from painting to space and performance.
He was resident in Berlin when the Wall was demolished in '89 and it is hard not to see across all of his work an attempt to hold contraries together, to explore art and life beyond boundaries and borders: psychological; social and aesthetic.
Through 40 years of art practice, Tan Ping has been exploring many fields such as painting, printmaking, multimedia, design and so on. Tan Ping's exhibitions have been held all over Europe, and his works have been collected by the National Art Museum of China, Shanghai Art Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Ludwig Museum, Arizona State University Art Museum, and other important institutions in China and abroad.
