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M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong, © Ma Desheng
Ma Desheng 馬德升
Solidarity 人民的呼聲
1979, printed 2005
In this woodcut print, five hands with overlapping arms rise above a town. Each hand makes a gesture—opened, clenched, or curved—with the central hand pointing directly at the viewer. The hands tower over the town, which consists of small houses tightly crowded together. The print evokes a sense of people rising up and forging ahead in unity. Black dominates the work, a characteristic of Ma Desheng’s prints, which stood in contrast to the bright colours of propaganda art produced during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) in China. Ma is a self-taught artist, and the style of his expressive prints was influenced by the woodcuts of Käthe Kollwitz and Edvard Munch. Many of his other prints depict the feelings of depression permeating Chinese society and were published in the underground literary journal Today. After moving to Paris in 1986, Ma resumed working in ink-wash painting, a medium he had first used in his early career in China.
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