开幕酒会：2011年3月4日下午5：00-7:30
展览时间：2011年3月4日——2011年5月31日 10：00-18:30
地    点：上海市卢湾区复兴中路515号 思南公馆23幢2楼展厅
媒体联系人：游易知  64722838-101  zoey@longmenartprojects.com

华氏画廊 （1990年代作品）
开幕酒会：2011年3月4日下午7:00
展览时间：2011年3月4日——2011年4月08日10：00-18:00
地    点：上海市长宁区淮海西路570号 红坊艺术园区 G幢109室
媒体联系人：郑瑾  61275120  master@hwasgallery.com

    2011年3月的春暖花开季节里，上海龙门雅集与华氏画廊将联手为您展现享誉国际的绘画大师丁雄泉宣纸彩墨作品--“TO LOVE TO FRESH 使我爱 使我新鲜 –丁雄泉八十年代﹑九十年代作品展”，为方自寒冬中解严的上海，带来浪漫多情的温暖清新气息。
 
    一向热爱生命与生活的丁雄泉，2002年春天开始缠绵病榻，最终不抵病魔的侵蚀，2010年5月病逝于纽约。
 
    2010年11月中旬，代理丁雄泉多年的艺倡画廊，在香港艺术中心举办“丁雄泉一生爱花”画展；11月下旬，台湾台北市立美术馆主办“从狂狷豪迈到绚丽色彩 – 丁雄泉回顾展”；12月初，台湾台北SOKA艺术中心则首度举办了“採花記－丁雄泉藝術之旅”。

    港台两地密集举行的三个成功展览，尤其是台北市立美术馆的回顾展，让所有关心他艺术发展的人，第一次看到许多从未在亚洲发表过的作品，也让许多热爱丁雄泉作品的艺术收藏界朋友们都觉得，再一次的认识了他的艺术与才情。

    丁雄泉的女儿Mia 与儿子Jesse也趁这趟参加回顾展开幕的亚洲之行，两度回到上海，并回到丁雄泉出生地-无锡，在亲人团聚氛围中，举行了一场正式的佛教诵经仪式，迎丁雄泉魂归故里，叶落归根。

    丁雄泉先生的绘画世界，一直是一个充满了感官快乐的，有诱惑力的，有魔力的世界；它总吸引着那些愿意分享他的激情的人们，它也总会带给观者一种难忘的生命视觉经验，而不自觉地进入一个瑰丽曼妙、迷情梦幻的艺术构筑中，让花团锦簇的馨香，青春生命的讴歌，性爱的欢愉，一一幻化成绚丽跃动之色彩。
 
    丁雄泉喜欢将柔美的女性人体、花卉、山水和动物，浓缩为一幅幅色彩清丽的视觉诗画，传达内心深处清波暗涌的脉脉余情。丁雄泉的纸上画作一向受到东西方人士喜爱，皆因其作品中鲜活亮丽之独特性。然而丁雄泉的东方情感乃根植于内心，他仍然用墨线勾勒绘彩于画布、画纸上。1980年代起，他自号“采花大盗”，“风流先生”，这也是为了标榜自己坦率恣肆的名士风度，标榜自己是女性美真正的创造与发现者。

    2011年3月，龙门雅集与华氏画廊将在丁雄泉成长的故乡-上海，举行“TO LOVE TO FRESH 使我爱 使我新鲜 -丁雄泉八十年代﹑九十年代作品展”；分别由龙门雅集展出丁雄泉1980年代与华氏画廊展出1990年代的彩墨宣纸作品，总计约七十件，完整介绍丁雄泉1980年代与1990年代宣纸彩墨作品的创作过程与成就。是1997年上海美术馆展览以来，在上海最大规模的一次丁雄泉作品发表会。

 “TO LOVE TO FRESH 使我爱 使我新鲜”
 Exhibition of Walasse Ting Paintings from the 1980s & 1990s
 
 
 Press Release
 

Longmen Art Projects (Works from the 1980s)
Opening Reception: March 4, 2011 5-7:30pm
Exhibition: March 4 – May 31, 2011 10am – 6:30pm Daily
Venue Address: 2/F, 23 Sinan Mansions, No. 515 Fuxing Middle Rd., Shanghai
Media Contact: Zoey You  (021) 64722838 x101  zoey@longmenartprojects.com

Hwa’s Gallery (Works from the 1990s)
Opening Reception: March 4, 2011 7pm
Exhibition: March 4 – April 8, 2011 10am – 6pm Daily
Venue Address: G109 Red Town Art Garden, No. 570 West Huai Hai Road, Shanghai
Media Contact: Jin Jin  (021) 61275120  master@hwasgallery.com

In March, 2011, as temperatures begin to warm and the flowers begin to blossom in the city of Shanghai, Longmen Art Projects and Hwa’s Gallery, in a joint effort, will present an exhibition of colored ink on paper works by the internationally acclaimed artist Walasse Ting: “TO LOVE TO FRESH 使我爱 使我新鲜” – Exhibition of Walasse Ting Paintings from the 1980s & 1990s. Longmen Art Projects will exhibit works from the 1980s, and Hwa’s will exhibit works from the 1990s – totaling approximately 70 works. The joint exhibition will bring forth a refreshing, romantic, and vibrant energy to the city of Shanghai as it defrosts from the rigid winter. Shanghai is also a childhood home of Walasse Ting, and the exhibition will be the largest one-man show for the artist since the 1997 exhibition at the Shanghai Art Museum.

Walasse Ting had always lived with passion, and he was also passionate about life itself. In 2002, he suffered a brain hemorrhage and could no longer produce artworks. In May, 2010, Walasse passed away in New York City.

In mid-November, 2010, Walasse’s long-time agent, Alisan Fine Arts Gallery in Hong Kong organized an exhibition at the Hong Kong Arts Center – I Love Flowers All My Life; in late-November, The Taipei Fine Arts Museum held From Heroic Expression to Resplendent Color: Walasse Ting Retrospective Exhibition; and in early-December, Taipei SOKA Art Center launched The Floral Journey-The Artistic Memoir of Walasse Ting.

These three back-to-back exhibitions in Taiwan and Hong Kong were hugely successful, and especially in regards to the museum exhibition, enabled many who’ve followed Walasse Ting’s artistic development to see many previously unpublished works and get reacquainted with Walasse Ting. 

Walasse’s Son and daughter, Jesse and Mia, on their journeys to attend these exhibitions, twice visited Shanghai, and before their departure, they returned to Walasse’s birthplace, Wuxi, and held a formal Buddhist ceremony; surrounded by Walasse’s family and friends – a fallen leaf returning to its roots.

Walasse Ting’s artistic world has always been filled with joy, power, and seduction. It has always attracted those who share the same passion as he did, and his art never fails to impress upon his audience a visual impression of life. Walasse’s audience is often drawn into a fantastical world of grace and magnificence, where the flowers blossom, the songs of youth, and sensual pleasures combine to create a climactic hyperbole.

Walasse Ting gracefully captures female figures, plants, landscapes, and animals, and composes visually pleasing and colorful pictures, expressing his inner, tender emotions. Walasse’s works on paper have always been popular with the East and the West, due to their unique vibrant colors and energetic compositions. Walasse’s heart has always been filled with Eastern sentiments, as evident from the black ink outlines applied on both paper and canvas works. Since the 1980s, he called himself “The Flower Pirate” and “Mr. Distinguished” – a proud statement of his own celebrity status, as well as proclaiming that he is the real creator and discoverer of the female beauty.