Tie Ying, Chinese Artist for the World

GLOBAL TIMES
April 8, 2011

"Masses" by Tie Ying

CHINA - Conceptual graphic artist Tie Ying's The World is Yours will premiere at +1 Space in downtown Beijing on Sunday. It will be the renowned cultural commentator his first solo exhibition in the capital since his 1994 show at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Tie's alma mater and site of his early training in the chromatic, visually twisted style that has become his trademark. Drawing inspiration from sources as disparate as classical Chinese art, Tibetan religious symbols, current events and pop-cultural tropes, Tie's work represents a fusion of the familiar and the exotic, the mundane, eerie, the traditional and the innovative. Infused with a strong, stark sense of color, form and movement, Tie's art has seen viewings in galleries from New York to Copenhagen, where his latest show saw him side-by-side with fellow countryman and sculptor Zhou Chunya.  "I don't see myself as traditional artist who has a kind of prefect artistic skill that has to be practiced and repeated," he said. "Finding your own vision is the secret code to making good art." [link]