Walasse Ting

Parrot Jungle

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Ariella Wolens

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Skira
30 April 2024

Art & design styles: Pop art

The extraordinary world of the artist Walasse Ting (1928-2010)

Walasse Ting (b. 1929, Wuxi, China, d. 2010, New York) was one of the most radical and independent figures of his time. His work fused the traditions of Chinese art with the rebellious spirit of the French avant-garde, and combined the joy of the Northern European CoBrA movement with the kinesthetic power of Abstract Expressionism. His work has been considered the most extraordinary collective book of the 1960s. Walasse Ting: Parrot Jungle goes beyond 1¢ Life, reflecting on the greater narrative of Ting's abundant oeuvre. It also provides readers the opportunity to immerse themselves in Ting's world, in which female figures with rainbow-colored flesh are surrounded by flora, fauna and a wild menagerie of cats, parrots, grasshoppers, butterflies, flamingos, peacocks and horses. It also documents the story of Ting's diasporic life, the formation of his transnational identity and his defiantly independent spirit. Ting is an artist plagued with the gift of being born too soon. He was a global artist before universal cultural exchange defined modern life. His work eludes the restrictions used to form historical narratives, which rely on neatly placing artists and artworks in fixed national and stylistic groupings. Western art history's inability to situate Ting in a singular construct has lead him to be omitted from many of the cultural narratives in which he played a pivotal role.

Edited by: NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Ariella Wolens
Imprint: Skira
Country of Publication: Italy
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 240mm,
Weight: 1.300kg
ISBN: 9788857251356
ISBN 10: 8857251357
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 30 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ariella Wolens is the Bryant-Taylor Curator at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, a position she has held since January 2021. She has written for Art in America, Flash Art, Gagosian Quarterly and Spike among other publications. She is a member of Independent Curators International.

Reviews for Walasse Ting: Parrot Jungle

Flickering among the major figures of postwar art -- the Minimalist sculptor Dan Flavin, the avant-garde artist Pierre Alechinsky, the abstract painter Sam Francis and others -- is the radiant shadow of Walasse Ting.--Will Heinrich ""The New York Times""