Opening time：4pm, May 5, 2013
Duration: 2013.05.06 -- 2013.05.12
Location: 3rd floor exhibition hall of building 1, Today Art Museum

Ma Jie’s artistic exploration is in the process of fission, just like aggregation and separation in the human history reflect some kind of paradox of civilization. Actually, History is neither in progress nor backwardness, only existence rationality, whether can give people’s survival with more satisfaction and happiness. For contemporary people, the unfortunate tragedy is in the progress of every crack,It leads us to the development road of no return with the name of some kind of "modernity", then lose our homes. Ma Jie’s art is in such a lost culture, and childhood memories bring him in the shadow of death, make him feel the broken reality with deeper feelings. He absorbed nutrients in the Dunhuang murals in the early days, not only to get the art language of enlightenment, but also in order to get traditional culture comfort and spiritual consolation. It is the cultural roots that drives Ma Jie later leave business for artistic creation, settle in SongZhuang art willage, become a professional artist; Artistic creation is also this kind of appeal which causes Ma Jie’s artistic creation in continuous self  fissions transcends the disturbance of real society, and more profoundly to the scholar world after the collapse, how to rebuild the spirit space of culture proposition in modern China.

Yang Wei

Ma Jie