To Fan Yaping, her art is a way of free thinking about the life and the universe. It is a figurative face from the real world which carries the expression of her multi-dimensional thinking about the infinite life. To quote Nietzsche in Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, "the spirit always does whatever it wants. All its acts, including the primitive acts, are acts of the 'free will'..."

Your own character is easy to be seen while the wisdom of a Buddha is rare to be found. Life is a fragile being. While art is doing the most profound thinking in such fragility. Fan Yaping switches such hidden impulse in life to a metaphysical perspective and poses it face to face with existence and death. Hence the Life and Death series.

The wisdom of Buddha is eternal. It is a kind of faith. Faith is what is absent in our society. The artist calls upon people to think about faith with her works. It might be true that only few of us could be completely enlightened spiritually and find a faith on the metaphysical abstract level. The yearning to become one of the few drives her to a greedy state like someone lost in a desert is suddenly served with a table of food. Oil painting and sculpture become her best way of expression. In her own disposition lies the wisdom of Buddha. When she bows down and takes mercy in life as an artist, she encounters this wisdom. Fan Yaping takes some time every year to meditate in seclusion. Thus can she have more quiet time and stay away from the hustle bustle of urban life to practice herself in silence, create art in silence. It is like the way Winckelman described the ancient Greek sculptures: "noble simplicity and quiet grandeur"...

About the exhibition

Duration: 2015.04.02 -- 2015.04.25

Location: 2nd floor exhibition hall of Building No.1, Today Art Museum

Courtesy of the artist and Today Art Museum, for further information please visit www.todayartmuseum.com.