This vibrant artwork depicts an urban landscape undergoing construction. The composition features bold, contrasting colors and shapes, including an orange excavator in the foreground and a looming, blocky building in the background. The overall scene conveys a sense of progress and transformation, with the bare branches of a tree suggesting the change of seasons. The artist's use of expressive, stylized forms and a flattened perspective suggests a modernist or expressionist artistic style. This piece likely reflects the artist's commentary on the rapid urbanization and development transforming the contemporary cityscape. ...
Ma Haijiao (b.1990, Hebei, China) received his B.A. & M.F.A. at the China Academy of Art. He was a nominee for the JIMEI x ARLES Discovery Award in 2020. He won the prize of EACA (East Asian Contemporary Art, 2019), and was a finalist of the Huayu Youth Award in Art Sanya (2018) and the 10th Three Shadows Photography Award (2018). His artworks are in the collection of Smart Museum of Art (Chicago), Power Station of Art (Shanghai), and ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art (Vladivostok).
His recent solo exhibitions include: The North, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2022); If We Delete Green, If We Start Caring About Plants, Tabula Rasa Gallery (London, 2022); A Room with A View, Zhejiang Art Museum (Hangzhou, 2021); Happy Valley II, Discoveries, Art Basel (Hong Kong, 2019); Happy Valley, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2018); just to name a few.
His recent institutional exhibitions include: I Recognised the World: Born in the 80s and 90s, MOCA Yinchuan (Yinchuan, 2021); Future Future: CEF Young Artists’ Experimental Film Project, Bona Palace (Shanghai, 2020); An Impulse to Turn, Inside-Out Art Museum (Beijing, 2020); Symbiosis: The Intertextuality of Art and Poetry, OCAT (Shenzhen, 2019); 8102 — On Reality, OCAT (Shanghai, 2019); Today's Yesterday: The 1st Anren Biennale, Anren (Chengdu, 2017); The New Normal, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2017); Why Not Ask Again: The 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art (Shanghai, 2016); Fly Without Wings, V ART Center, (Shanghai, 2015).
His short film Orange, Bee, and Snow Mountain was selected for the Short Short Film section of the FIRST International Film Festival (2021).
website：http://www.mahaijiao.cn/ ...
Tabula Rasa Gallery is based in Beijing's 798 art district. Established in 2015, it aims to promote both Chinese and international contemporary artists through exhibitions, talks, research and publication. The gallery name is Latin for 'blank state'. In philosophical discourse, it refers to the idea that our knowledge comes from our experiences and education, all participants are born in a Tabula Rasa state. Tabula Rasa hopes that the exhibitions they present can subvert viewers’ preconceptions, creating conditions for fresh artistic experiments. ...
