“Pending – Su Xinping Solo Exhibition” is going to be opened at Today Art Museum, Beijing at 3:00 p.m. of Sept. 15th, 2013. The exhibition was curated by Ms. Shu Kewen, the famous scholar and the Associate Editor of Sanlian Life Weekly, and co-organized by Today Art Museum and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, on which Mr. Su’s over 20 artworks created since 2007 will be displayed, including his “Landscape,” “Grey,” “Character” and “Eight Things” . 

As time went into a new century, especially after the year of 2007, Mr. Su seemingly returned to the experiment of individualized language, combed through some elements typical in his early works and tried to integrate them with personal experience and expression. The said personal experience refers to his expression language and method accumulated in long-term printmaking practices, e.g. Two-dimensional characteristics, pure and simple structure, application of oil paints, together with free brushwork, materiality of paint and natural revelation of internal feeling. Mr. Su frankly said that it was hard to name the indication of such an expression, no matter being the “Landscape,” “Grey” or “Eight Things”, they were all from imagination and somewhat ambiguous. He was looking for a way to accurately convey his inner feeling, and to depict individual’s inner world in a “seemingly ambiguous but actually accurate” manner. 

For an artist as Mr. Su Xinping, continuously challenging himself in artistic creation would impel himself to return to the origin, in order to gather momentum for going beyond himself. In recent years, Su Xinping concentrated his interest more on considering and exploring the possibility of contemporary conversions of the idea and method of traditional Chinese painting, and personal artistic language. Through persistently drilling and refining his most familiar language and method, Mr. Su finally found the artistic language and expression method suitable for him. Also, in reconsidering and comprehending the spirit and idea of traditional Chinese painting, he strove to realize contemporary conversion of the idea, and thus purposely formed his unique artistic language. This is what the exhibition intends to highlight.