Newman Huo

    YING TIANQI, an internationally acclaimed printmaker and professor at Shenzhen University, is showing his recent works at a one-man retrospective art exhibition at the Shenzhen Art Museum (SAM) through Feb. 20.

    Titled “Ying Tianqi’s 10 Year Art in Shenzhen,” the exhibition includes all major works the artist has created since he moved from Anhui Province to Shenzhen in 1998. The exhibition highlight is a series of oil paintings, titled “Remains of Centuries,” which Ying has created since 2006.

    In addition to his recent oil paintings, visitors can watch a documentary film Ying shot in 2008 and 2009 recording the demolition and removal of ancient city quarters in Wuhu.

    According to SAM curator, Song Yuming, the exhibition is the first for Ying since he settled in Shenzhen more than 10 years ago.

    Born in Wuhu, Anhui Province, in 1949, the same year of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Ying has been regarded as one of the most influential artists of New China.

    Graduating from the Wuhu No. 8 Middle School in 1964, Ying began learning drawing and painting in 1967.

    In 1979, following a visit to Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province, Ying created his watercolor “Fishing Tidings.” The work was awarded first prize at the Fine Arts Exhibition of Youth in Anhui Province, and was shown at the Second National Fine Arts Exhibition of Youth in Beijing and at Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art in Japan.