Platform China Contemporary Art Institute is honored to announce that the solo exhibition "Sacrifice of the Spring" of artist Ma Kelu will be launched on July 26, 2020. Curated by curator Wang Jiang, the exhibition will last until August 30. Rite of Spring will put on display the same-name abstract works created by Ma Kelu after he returned to China in 2006. Created in the special period of the individual fate of the artist, these works demonstrate his feeling and description of “youth and life”. Notably, bright and transparent colors and free brushworks become the important features of the frames, overflowing with deep feeling and poetic flavor. Moreover, the “landscape image” reflected by the works respond to the paint from life creation of Ma Kelu in his early artistic career and show up the source of the abstract painting language.
This exhibition is presented in parallel with Ma Kelu: Time, Scenery, Light and Life 1972-1984. They provide the comparative samples for studying on the creation context of the artist and reveal the dialectical relationship between concretization and abstraction in his works.