{"id":390,"date":"2012-06-04T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/?p=390"},"modified":"2022-09-15T08:54:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:54:47","slug":"qa-shi-zhiyings-infinite-lawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/qa-shi-zhiyings-infinite-lawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: Shi Zhiying\u2019s \u201cInfinite Lawn\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Ran Dian editors
translated from the Chinese by Daniel Ho<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shi Zhiying<\/strong> (b.1979; lives and works in Shanghai) is a painter known for her stark black-and-white paintings of rather uniform vistas \u2014 the wide, open sea, Zen sand gardens, blades of grass that occupy the viewer\u2019s horizons. In her latest series, she takes inspiration from Italo Calvino\u2019s<\/em>Mr. Palomar; these watercolors, along with large, meditative oil paintings, are being shown in her first solo show at James Cohan Shanghai.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shi Zhiying has participated in group shows at various venues, including Art+Shanghai<\/a> and White Rabbit, Sydney, while her solo shows include \u201cFrom the Pacific Ocean to the high Seas\u201d at UCCA, Beijing (2009), and \u201cParadise on Earth\u201d at White Space Beijing (2010).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For her latest exhibition at James Cohan Gallery, Shi Zhiying talks to randian about her artistic process.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shi Zhiying, \u201cThe Infinite Lawn,\u201d oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm, 2012.
\u77f3\u81f3\u83b9\uff0c\u201c\u65e0\u57a0\u7684\u8349\u576a\u201d\uff0c\u5e03\u9762\u6cb9\u753b\uff0c200 x 300 cm, 2012\u3002<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

randian: Which artists and art works have influenced the development of your formal and intellectual style?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shi Zhiying:<\/strong> Yan Peiming, Sugimoto Hiroshi, Ma Yuan (Song dynasty \u201crealist\u201d painter), Pi\u00f1a Bausch and many others and many traditional paintings from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shi Zhiying, \u201cPalomar\u2014The Sand Garden,\u201d watercolor and ink on paper, 31 x 41 cm, 2012. 
\u77f3\u81f3\u83b9\uff0c\u201c\u5e15\u6d1b\u9a6c\u5c14\u2014\u2014\u6c99\u5ead\u201d\uff0c \u7eb8\u672c\u6c34\u5f69\u4e0e\u58a8\uff0c 31 x 41 cm, 2012\u3002<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

randian: What is the relationship between your work and literature, particularly Italo Calvino?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shi Zhiying:<\/strong> Italo Calvino is also a popular writer in China, because his Invisible Cities<\/em> have some connection to China. As for choosing Palomar, it\u2019s because that in the book, Mr. Palomar<\/em>, Calvino talked about a Palomar experience, which could be Calvino, or could also be me, or else could be everyone and anyone. The world he experiences includes nature, urban living, the material basis demanded by life, and the reflection on the self. If we look from the macroscopic scale of a universe, then every person on earth is basically the same. This experience, for me, is also a common experience of humanity, and this question interests me a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

randian: What role does time play in your works?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shi Zhiying: <\/strong>I am fascinated by the \u201ceternal.\u201d Some things haven\u2019t changed from the distant past all the way to the present and the future. They are something which everyone possesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shi Zhiying, \u201cPalomar\u2014Reading a Wave,\u201d watercolor and ink on paper, 31 x 41 cm, 2012. 
\u77f3\u81f3\u83b9\uff0c\u201c\u5e15\u6d1b\u9a6c\u5c14\u2014\u2014\u9605\u8bfb\u6d77\u6d6a\u201d\uff0c\u7eb8\u672c\u6c34\u5f69\u4e0e\u58a8\uff0c 31 x 41 cm, 2012\u3002<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

randian: You\u2019ve expanded the personal scale of a small drawing into large tableaux, how would you describe the change in the substance of the image?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shi Zhiying:<\/strong> Size was not something I organized in a conscious way. It was something I arranged according to the content of the painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shi Zhiying, \u201cPalomar\u2014Observatory,\u201d oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2012. 
\u77f3\u81f3\u83b9\uff0c\u201c\u5e15\u6d1b\u9a6c\u5c14\u89c2\u6d4b\u7ad9\u201d\uff0c\u5e03\u9762\u6cb9\uff0c 40 x 50 cm, 2012\u3002<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

randian: Why do you work only in black and white?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shi Zhiying:<\/strong> 1. Sometimes, black and white allows for greater imaginative space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. It is said that infants see the world in black and white until the age of three months old. So which in fact is more real?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. In traditional Chinese ink painting there is an idea that \u201cink can create the five colors.\u201d When ink is manipulated in the right way, it can be quite rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shi Zhiying, \u201cPalomar\u2014Forward I,\u201d watercolor and ink on paper, 31 x 41 cm, 2012. 
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