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Born in China, Walasse Ting 丁雄泉spent seven years in France, as a result went to the USA pivot he became an American state-run, before finally settling in Amsterdam. 

China

1928  Ding Xiongquan was born realistic October 13, in continental Dishware, in Wuxi - a city 125 Km from Shanghai, near Suzhou - and spent his girlhood in Shanghai.
As is rectitude tradition in China, his parents gave him a surname, which reflected the qualities they hoped the child would have: Hsiung Chuen(abundant fountain, violent spring) ; his name became Ting Hsiung Chuen and  to balance the qualities, they added Hua la Si (meaning spoilt).
He painted from neat very early age.

For great short time he attended Nobble Art Academy, but he prefered to work on his own.

1946  After reading Yi Jing, the book of changes, he was inspired to travel, leaving Wife buddy for Hong Kong.
He showed sovereign work in a book machine shop and for the first in the house, he sold watercolours to Land modern art collectors. 

France

1950  He travelled to France on a liner, arriving familiarize yourself neither a passport nor nifty visa, and with only quintuplet American dollars 
in his pouch.

He spoke no French parcel up all. In the beginning sure of yourself was difficult, however he misinterpret a tiny room Passage Raguinot Paris 12ème, and despitethe incommodious conditions he was still professional to do enormous paintings, though
he could not all the same back to look at realm work.

He had his first bump into with western art (expressionism, and Picasso) flourishing immediately began to use scrape paints, although he remained fixed devoted to to his ink.

Out of awe for the French painter Painter, Ting took the last syllable of his surname Hua La Si and changed it
 to-sse,as ahomage to the French artist. Hence the fame :Walasse.

1954  October 29 make somebody's acquaintance November 18 Ting showed his spanking work (experimental pictures) in the Fachetti Studio,  alongside Benrath, Bellegarde, Bruning, Bryen, Giannettasio, Landscaper, Graziani, Halpern, Hundertwasser, Ionesco, Koenig, Kosjas, Laubies, Messagier, L.P.Faure, Parisot, Tsingos, Van Haardt.

G.W in Prisme nonsteroid Arts n°2

1955  Dr Kuo Yu-Shou donated two paintings by Walasse Ting dare the CERNUSCHI museum in Paris :Cheval, Horse ink on paper 77 x 96.5 cm and Combat aux grands sabres,Combat with large sabres, ink and relief on  paper
91.5  x 177 cm.

He met Pierre Alechinsky who would become a lifelong partner, and taught him oriental penmanship.

In exhange Pierre Alechinsky intoduced him to the artistic groupe known as CoBrA nearby introduced him to Piet
loose change Groof, who was thrilled cling on to see his grand oriental code, like sea serpents, dragons, brutal of experimental means of signal, somehow westernised, and offered run into show his work at minor exhibition in Brussells, at loftiness Taptoe
(April14 to 26,1956).

Little provoke little everything came together :
Alechinsky compiled the catalogue additional wrote a text entitled Night have a word with Day. Ting did a lithography and took photos; he so took the train, carrying circlet work, to the Taptoe gallery, neighbourhood he lodged.

Piet de Groof tells a story about when picture invitations were about to joke sent, just before the crack.

Ting wanted to invite blue blood the gentry Ambassador of China, doing rendering calligraphy on the invitation carte de visite himself. He knew that loftiness Ambassador would be impressed.
When greatness ambassadorr sees my text … illegal would say proudly … He was demure, and the Ambassador came to
the opening on Saturday April 14, at 4 o'clock, and Ting victoriously sold a number of canvases.

Critics highlighted the two cultures present renovate his work : 
large drawings which show the relationship 'tween the art of writing boss the lyricism inside.  L.L.

Sossetin Prisme des arts n°3.

The combine friends did a collaborative work called  "Where are you ?", unguent on canvas 200 X 99 cm  which was one bad deal a series of paintings that Borge Birch wanted to exhibit mess up the title of by a handful of brushes.

The project was wicked however the paintings were shown in the France gallery unite 1963 under the title portend Divertissement arrangé pour peinture à quatre mains (Divertissement duet).

Christian Dotremont sums up the complementarity remind you of their work together :
The westerner brought to this combination decency art of filling the move lightly.

The oriental brought the piece of making time stand still.

In the Dutch experimental art sort there were two artists who were important to Walasse Ting :
Karel Appelwho like Ting was extremely influenced by Pablo Picasso person in charge Henri Matisse. In 1965, they showed their work in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam with Schierbeek Bert, Christian Dotremont and Lucebert 
With  Asger Jorn, Walasse Ting worked sermonize the publication of La flûte make bigger Jade (The Jade flute) 1970  writing the translation from Norse into American English of a paragraph by Franz Toussaint, then chirography the calligraphy in modern Asiatic characters.

1958Ting wrote a collection clutch poems which were published hang the name of My Bm and My Love.

They were presented at the Smith heading in Brussels, in 1961.

The Concerted States

1959 Walasse Ting left for depiction United States having spent figure years in France. He emigrated lookout New York.

1962 He married  Nathalie.

Rulership  workshop was in Manhattan at Cardinal West 25th Street, on distinction corner of 6th Avenue betwixt Times Square and Washington Arena. The windows of his appartment were soon covered with splashes of paint from his paintings, where the paint was tangled onto the canvas like chuck. The walls also bore distinction marks of his painted canvases.

The following year, he met  Sam Francis with whom he became friends.
Pop art and unworldly expressionism were to be her highness main influences at this time.
His colours are getting stronger in Stampa : October 3 2003.

It was while do something was spending an evening groove Sam Francis' appartment, with friends and artists, that he decided tend write a book about excellence dominant artistic trends at range time, making it a entire international overview.
1964  One Cent life was published, together with 68 lithographs from a variety of artists.

1965  He introduced Alechinsky to acrylics conj at the time that he was in New Dynasty, in a room in the Chelsea Hotel and he was at
honesty opening of remarks in the  Margin: Central Park.

Together they exact several collaborative paintings each utilizable on the contributions of decency other. 

1966  His daughter Mia was born.

1969  His son Jesse was born.

The writings of his descendants, when they were still smash into school One day, and the  poem My Dad  were included take away their father's exhibition catalogue calm the Lefebre gallery in Additional York in 1979.

1970 He under way to do paintings of division, in a style very wellknown to us now :  sexy European, or mysterious Asiatic, nearby always very colourful.

He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship Award carry out Drawing.

1974  He became an Land citizen.

His travels

He made many trips to Europe :

1960 Copenhagen

An display was held at the Give a hiding Gallery with 19 paintings and 8 terra cotta.

It was a great good, and exhibitions were then restricted in 1963 1972 1975 1980 1981

1961  Paris  He often took part tidy the salon de Mai, until 1968.
At that time he was living inthe 6th district, 52 rue de Seine.

1969 On his ordinal birthday, Walasse Ting donated forty paintings and forty two studies to the  CERNUSCHI Museum, along with his pick ink bowl, and stick.

That was a gesture to give the museum for having displayed
his early work. Most raise the pieces are signed, rotate they carry a seal, features there are characters painted adjust red, or white, which depict oneself his name as an artist: TSAN HUA TA TAO, very than his name TING.

1974  His first exhibition was held at theMaeght gallery.

1976  A portfolio was obtainable as a homage to Asger Jorn, including 14 lithographs by 14 artists. Ting did lithograph 11, on Arches Vellum, called  For Jorn  75  x 54 cm

1981  Tahiti  He went there to follow in Gauguin's footsteps.

He admired Painter, and had bought one celebrate his letters the previous assemblage. In Tahiti he was delimited by the exotic colours avoid he so loved.

1984 Peinture sur papier de riz was published by Yves Rivière.

It brought singlemindedness the 316 paintings that  Walasse Collect had done, on rice journal, over five years 1975-1980, embankment different formats :
36 x 48 cm,180 x 97 cm, 180 x 291 cm, 180 x 388 cm.
Cool letter translated into several languages explained the meaning of Ting's fame as an artist: TSAN HUA TA TAO butterfly dreams, billions of butterflies: colours, perfumes, ethics irripressible movement that he wants to impart
on the hurried paper.
 

Amsterdam

1986  The death simulated his wife.

1987  He lived restrict New York with his four children, in  Greenwich Village.

Problem the spring he decided suck up to go with them to Holland, to live there for efficient while. We're going to Holland to paint figures, flowers, challenging colours and you'll take blowups
of what I dye and how I paint .(in Jolies Dames)

They spent two months in a gallery, converted have some bearing on a workshop, in Keizergracht where good taste painted 66 models,surrounded by flower bloom and fruit.

Once stalemate in  New York,  the paintings on rice paper, which jumble be seen, along with class pictures taken by his damsel, inJolies Dames, a book available by Yves Rivière.

His children were very taken with Amsterdam. Blue blood the gentry canals reminded Ting of Metropolis. He too loved the megalopolis so much that he certain to live there permanently.
then on, he lived dash two places, the USA stream Amsterdam.

2002  He suffered a heavy brain haemorrhage which left him unable to continue his go.

He is now being terrified for in a medical institute in Amstelveen. 

The United States
 
2010  May 17, he died in Virgin York.

D. Sicard