Walasse Ting

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Walasse Ting (born October 13, 1929 in Shanghai , † May 17, 2010 in New York City ) was a Chinese-American artist and poet. Sometimes one uses his Chinese name "丁雄泉" or one of its translations: Ding Xiongquan or Ting Hsiung-ch'uan.

Life

Ting was born in Shanghai in 1929 . In 1946 he moved to Hong Kong and lived there for a few years. In 1952 he moved to Paris and got to know artists like Karel Appel , Asger Jorn and Pierre Alechinsky , all of whom were members of the CoBrA group. He later moved to New York , USA, where he found inspiration for his painting in Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism . He started out as an abstract artist, but most of his work since the mid-1970s has been popularly figurative. They are often large-format works with large areas of color. Ting painted with acrylics . Ting lived alternately in Amsterdam and New York.

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With his colorful paintings he has addressed a wide audience. Naked women, cats, birds and other animals are typical themes in his works. Ting has published 13 books. In order to depict American and French art of the 1960s and at the same time to publish his poetry, he became the editor of “One Cent Life”, a large-format portfolio with 62 loose lithographs by 28 artists, including Andy Warhol , Roy Lichtenstein , Tom Wesselmann , James Rosenquist , Asger Jorn , Pierre Alechinsky , Karel Appel , Kiki Kogelnik , Joan Mitchell and Sam Francis . It was published in 1964 by Eberhard W. Kornfeld in Bern . The poems contained by Walasse Ting appeared in multicolored typography, which was far ahead of its time in terms of graphic design.

Presence in exhibitions

Works by Ting can be seen in many collections, for example in the Guggenheim Museum , New York; Museum of Modern Art , New York; Art Institute of Chicago ; Tate Modern , London; Center Pompidou , París and the Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Awards

In 1970 he won the Guggenheim Fellowship Award for drawing.

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personal data
SURNAME Ting, Walasse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 丁雄泉; Ding Xiongquan; Ting Hsiung-ch'uan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese-American painter and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Shanghai , China
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2010
Place of death New York City