Bingyi's monumental scroll painting Apocalypse (2011-2015) will be featured at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art as part of Till It's Gone, a group show on art and ecology. Opening on January 13, 2016, Till It's Gone will bring together 20 international artists whose practices reflect conceptual engagement with sustainability and the relationship between humans and nature.
Completed over the course of four and a half years, Apocalypse recollects Bingyi's first-hand experience of the sites of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and flood. Created in collaboration with the local topography, the delicate ink wash on silk paradoxically expresses the terror of catastrophe and the awesome vitality of nature reclaiming the human world. From this amorphous background, using the meticulous and idealizing language of Song-dynasty court paintings, Bingyi draws out the features of a ruined landscape in the midst of its rebirth.
For more information, please visit Istanbul Modern's website: http://www.istanbulmodern.org/en/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/till-its-gone_1743.html
Exhibition | Till It's Gone (Istanbul Museum of Modern Art)
Apocalypse, 2011-2015, Ink on silk, 91.5 × 2000 cm
December 29, 2015
