THANK GOODNESS FOR NEW DISCOVERIES...
I was feeling dissatisfied. It’s probably the time of the year but even if there were a lot of exhibitions that I wanted to see, I felt as if I was turning around in circles. Nothing really new coming in. After the exhibition on Schoenberg, I contemplated going to Strasbourg to see a retrospective of Kandinsky…but why? Of course I would see paintings that I don’t know, but I have been following Kandinsky for years now - would I learn anything new? Then a friend who is as keen on modern art as I am suggested Walasse Ting at the Cernuschi museum. A few weeks later I saw pictures of his work in one of my subscription magazines and decided to go. Well - but I had better go and see to satisfy my curiosity... The poster for the exhibition A little about him: His real name was Ding Xiongquan, and he was born in 1928. Later he chose the pseudonym Walasse Ting and the nickname, "The Flower Thief". In my book, he is an unclassifiable artist, who was active in Paris, New