01.30.2020-02.02.2020
MA SIBO -recent works
artgenève 2020
Artgenève 2020 - Booth D38
Gowen Contemporary is pleased to present at artgenève 2020, for the first time in Switzerland, the work of Chinese artist Ma Sibo.
Born in Tianjin in 1979, Ma Sibo earned a B.F.A. from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in China in 2001. The artist completed his training in France, first at the High School of Art and Design in Toulon, then in Nîmes at the High School of Fine Arts. During this stay in Nîmes, he finds himself fascinated by post-war abstract expressionism, which will later become an important reference in his work.
Ma Sibo’s mysterious paintings, suspended between reality and imagination, inhabited by skillful colour schemes and bright voids, reveal an evanescent and poetic atmosphere that leads the viewer towards a contemplative and spiritual dimension.
Elements from everyday life are transformed into lyrical visions, both in purity and silence, depicted in a vibrant light that can awaken a feeling of nostalgia. Through the appropriation of form and color, the artist spiritualizes the perceptible reality and creates a strong connection between figuration and abstraction, between visible and invisible.
To use Mark Rothko’s words, one of the most inspiring artists for Ma Sibo : “Painting is a language as natural as singing or speaking. It is a method for forging a visible trace of our experience, visual or imaginary, coloured by our own feelings and reactions, and indicated with the same simplicity and spontaneity as singing and speaking.“ (Mark Rothko, ‘Writings on Art’, 1934-1969).
A solo show by Ma Sibo will be presented at Gowen Contemporary from February 27th to May 2nd, 2020.
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Ma Sibo (1979)
Showcase, 2019
Oil on canvas
200 x 160 cm