As an art form with Chinese attributes, ink painting has a unique meaning in the global context, and has also become a field of visual culture that attracts attention in the process of Chinese art continuity and creative transformation in the 21st century. In the history of art, the exploration from "New Literati Painting" to "Experimental Ink Painting" has provided a new paradigm for artists to study the ontology of ink media and the expansion and innovation of the aesthetic elements it carries.
Stunned 113cm 58m paper design color 2023.
Tan Fei's ink painting is also gradually unfolding in such a context, and in the creative system of her and her contemporaries, the experience of ink painting from images, concepts, forms, and linguistic senses continues to advance the path of recent ink painting practice from two aspects.
Warm Sunshine 140cm 125m 紙本設色 2020。
The first is to combine the art history provided to the current creators with the real experience of individuals, and bring "ink" closer to daily aesthetics as a spiritual way to communicate inner experience and the external world; The second is to combine the new language of brush and ink, the narrative mode of images and the charm of ink and wash carried by it with the mainstream art expression system of publicity, and explore how the modeling language can be transformed into a more realistic art melody of new era significance.
Autumn Harvest 140cm 125m 紙本設色 2020。
It can be said that in the two-way interaction between the further transformation of the daily aesthetic experience of new ink painting and the exploratory return of the realistic perspective, Tan Fei provided her ink painting sequences at this stage, creating a batch of unique ink images with a distinct temperament of the times.
Blow 110cm 70m 紙本設色 2021.
Temperament is the hallmark that ink painting gives to Chinese art a special meaning in the current context, and Tan Fei is sensitive to the visual meaning of this academic term. In her recent explorations, she transforms the heavy ink color into a light and elegant charm, and then refines a kind of "clear meaning" ink rhyme.
Tide 1 60cm 40m 紙本設色 2015.
In those ink images full of childlike semantics, Tan Fei arranges the scenes of daily life into different ink narratives with a relaxed and witty tone of pen and ink. For example, in the Tides Series, the Wellness Series, and the Haze Series, the elegant and clear brushstrokes follow her sensibility to the aesthetics of everyday life and the perspective of realism to generate narrative ink images.
Tide 2 60cm 40m 紙本設色 2015.
In these paintings, whether it is the peek into the trivial details of life, the expression of the daily cycle with a sense of instability on the water surface, or the insistence on the changes in the surrounding environment and the joy of life with the sunshine in the heart, it is as if entering a "theater" carefully directed by the artist.
Push back picture 100cm 40m paper book color 2015.
In this ink theatre constructed by a clear temperament, Tan Fei experimentally uses the visual resources of the local vocabulary as a soft atmosphere full of ink translucency that permeates the theater, presenting the narrative content and plot one by one in a relaxed and leisurely personality. In successive works such as "Warm Sun", "Autumn Harvest", "Cool Summer", "Little Flower" and "Time Station", Tan Fei provides a "mutual integration experience" that connects the daily and the mainstream, the personal and the public, and the interesting and the real in the "Clear Theater" of new ink painting, and she is opening a new exploration of the world of ink painting from the kaleidoscope of contemporary vision to the melody of reality.
(Wen Wang Meng, well-known curator, art critic, research librarian of the National Art Museum of China).
Appreciation of Tan Fei's works
Purple Qi Yingxiang 113cm 58m 紙本設色 2024.
Toe viewing, 100cm, 40m, paper, 2015.
Haze 1 50cm 50m 紙本設色 2015.
Haze 2 50cm 50m paper color 2015.
Haze 3 50cm 50m paper design color 2015.
*Portrait 1 65cm 65m 紙本設色 2021.
*Portrait 2 65cm 75m 紙本設色 2022.
*Portrait 3 50cm 40m 紙本設色 2022.
Floret, 145cm, 200cm, 2008.
Time Station, 310cm, 210cm, 2013.
*: Post-70s ink).
Artist Profile
Tan Fei,Shandong people. He is currently an associate researcher of the National Museum of China, a doctor of fine arts, a postdoctoral fellow of the ** Academy of Fine Arts, a director of the Beijing Artists Association, a director of the China Gongbi Painting Society, a member of the China Artists Association, and a member of the Beijing Dongcheng Youth Federation.
In 2019, he was selected for the Sino-Italian Youth International Exchange Residency Program, went to Italy for two months and held two solo exhibitions there; Independently presided over the completion of one national project, completed four library-level projects, published many core journals, and participated in the editing and publication of many catalogues; His art creation has been funded by the 2019 National Art ** Young Art Creation Talent Project, nominated for Young Artist Talent at the National Art Museum of China, and nominated for the academic nomination of "Gong Contemporary - The 10th Chinese Gongbi Painting Exhibition". The 3rd National Youth Art Exhibition Outstanding Works Award, the 2010 Chinese Painting Exhibition Outstanding Works Award and other important national exhibition awards. His works have been collected by the Art Museum of **Academy of Fine Arts, Prince Gong's Mansion, and the Italian Garjo Art Center.