Platform China Contemporary Art Institute is honored to announce that the solo exhibition "Time, Scenery, Light, and Life" of artist Ma Kelu will be launched on July 18, 2020. The exhibition will systematically present landscape works created by Ma Kelu between 1972 and 1984. The exhibition title "Time, Scenery, Light, and Life" tries to remind visitors of the social and cultural context behind these works. Deviating from the art system and mainstream aesthetics of that era, these works show the artist's active choice and brave practice of personal art ideals in a special historical period, and serve as a specific representative among the gestation and germination of a new ideological trend of artistic freedom. As for the artist's creative process, the landscape works at this stage go far beyond general paint from life. The artistic practice itself has distinct artistic propositions, research consciousness and working methods. They have absorbed the expression skills of Western modernism while brimming with the freehand features of Chinese art, in pursuit of free expression in line with the true experience of life. The artist's gains and experience accumulated therefrom have also continuously provided nutrition and motivation for his artistic career. "Time, Scenery, Light, and Life" is a long prelude to the evolution of the artist's subsequent abstract creation. During the exhibition, visitors have the chance to dig into the origin of a certain contemporary Chinese abstract painting.