Ma Qiusha and Zhao Yao are attending the first contemporary art group exhibition Advent, which opens in Outpost Bay of Chongming Island in Shanghai on Oct. 20, 2019. The exhibition invited 31 famous contemporary artists and groups from home and abroad to participate.
Exhibitions include Zhao Hao's Thoughtful Painting I-985 (2017) and Ma Qiusha's Waduran-Shepin King (2016). The graphics in the "Drawing with A Lot of Ideas" series are based on several puzzle books. Zhao creates thick acrylic blocks of high purity on top of the ready-made fabric. The smooth sheen of the acrylic paints, mimicking the glow from the highlights of children's plastic toys, brings into the picture and sublimates the plastic glow that is everywhere in the everyday experience of contemporary society. The newly added texture pattern takes "marbling" as a collective aesthetic memory, combines ready-made images, ready-made colors and ready-made understanding of painting to inspire a comprehensive aesthetic and cognitive experience with a sense of The Times. "Painting with a Lot of ideas" is painting about painting, which is both serious and playful.
The "Wadland" series was first exhibited in Ma Qiusha's eponymous solo exhibition "Wadland" (2016). Broken slabs of the same specification were wrapped in different shades of flesh-colored nylon socks, then reassembled and joined into blocks. Flesh-colored nylon socks with poor elasticity and a strong artificial sense of color are out of fashion today, but they were considered fashionable by Chinese women in the 1980s and 1990s. In the artist's tracing of childhood, the existence of flesh-colored nylon socks seems not to promote individuality, but to cover the body and its differences. In the preparation and making of the work, she used clear nail polish to patch the tiny breakage in the socks, which was exactly the way Her mother mended nylon stockings for economy in a time when production was far from surplus. The privacy and collectivity of the body, the memory and temperature contained in personal objects and the aesthetics of the times are interwoven in Wadland.
