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M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation, © Ding Yi
Ding Yi 丁乙
Appearance of Crosses 95-4 十示95-14
1995
The repetition of the miniature plus signs and crosses is one of Ding Yi’s most recognisable motifs. He began using the crosses in the late 1980s and continues to employ them consistently. Evenly placed across his canvases regardless of size and colour, the crosses can be seen as the fundamental building block of the grid, an embodiment of standardisation, repetition, and rationality in a twentieth-century modernist context.
Mapping Chinese Art, 1972–2012: Selections for the M+ Sigg Collection. M+, Hong Kong, 2019. sigg.mplus.org.hk
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