MA SIBO
Ma Sibo, Nirvana, 2019, oil on canvas, 200 x 160 cm
ABOUT
After his education in China, the artist completed his training in Europe. It is during this stay that he can admire the classic masterpieces of the history of Western art, such as the paintings by Vermeer or Rembrandt, “whose language of light and shadow is rooted in [his] heart“ (Ma Sibo, 2020). He also finds himself fascinated by post-war abstract expressionism, by the works of Mark Rothko and James Turrell, two artists who will later become important references in his work.
Ma Sibo’s mysterious paintings, suspended between reality and imagination, composed by skillful color schemes and bright voids, reveal an evanescent and poetic atmosphere that leads the viewer towards a contemplative and spiritual dimension.
Elements from everyday life are theatrically transformed into lyrical visions, both in purity and silence, depicted in a vibrant light that can awaken a feeling of nostalgia or loneliness. Through the appropriation of form and color, the artist spiritualizes the perceptible reality and creates emotional settings suspended between figuration and abstraction, between visible and invisible.
To use Mark Rothko’s words, one of the most inspiring artists for Ma Sibo : “Painting is a method for forging a visible trace of our experience, visual or imaginary, coloured by our own feelings and reactions, and indicated with the same simplicity and spontaneity as singing and speaking.“ (Mark Rothko, ‘Writings on Art’, 1934-1969).
BIOGRAPHY
Biography
Ma Sibo was born in 1979 in Tianjin, China
He lives and works in Beijing, China
He lives and works in Beijing, China
Education
2006 - D.N.S.E.P. École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nîmes (ÉSBAN), Nîmes, France
2004 - D.N.A.P. École supérieure d’art et de design (ÉSADTPM), Toulon, France
2001 - B.F.A. Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department, Tianjin, China
2006 - D.N.S.E.P. École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nîmes (ÉSBAN), Nîmes, France
2004 - D.N.A.P. École supérieure d’art et de design (ÉSADTPM), Toulon, France
2001 - B.F.A. Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department, Tianjin, China
Solo Exhibitions
2020 - Ma Sibo. Stand in Silence, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2020 - artgenève Art Fair, with Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2018 - Ma Sibo, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong
2016 - Habitat, de Sarthe Gallery, Beijing, China
2013 - There Will be Light, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France
2012 - Apparition, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2010 - Les solititudes, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2020 - Ma Sibo. Stand in Silence, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2020 - artgenève Art Fair, with Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2018 - Ma Sibo, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong
2016 - Habitat, de Sarthe Gallery, Beijing, China
2013 - There Will be Light, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France
2012 - Apparition, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2010 - Les solititudes, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions
2022 - Beijing Biennale, Beijing, CN
2022 - Waiting for Jim, Gowen, Geneva, CH
2022 - ArtParis Art Fair, with Gowen Contemporary, Paris, FR
2020 - Contemporary Show Off, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong
2020 - Paris Art Fair (online), with Gowen Contemporary
2020 - artgenève art fair, with Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 - Exhibition of Han Feng’s Private Art Collection, Han Feng Art Space, Shanghai, China
2016 - Standing by Themselves: China Now, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong
2015 - Artists at Play, de Sarthe Gallery, Beijing, China
2015 - You, I, Among Us, de Sarthe Gallery, Beijing, China
2014 - Don’t Look Back, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Brussels, Belgium
2014 - 70/ 80 – La mutation générationnelle de l’art contemporain chinois, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2012 - Circusée — Yan Club Arts Center 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Yan Club Arts Center, Beijing, China
2011 - La vie est ailleurs, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
2011 - Made in China, Hélène Bailly Gallery, Paris, France
2010 - The Yangjingbang Culture, Galerie Dumonteil, Shanghai, China
2009 - Depths, Yan Club Arts Center, Beijing, China
2008 - Journey to the End of the Night, Yan Club Arts Center, Beijing, China
2006 - Fromage et Dessert, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, France
2006 - Histoire d’Eau, ville de Gréou, France
2005 - From a Figure to Another, Carré d’Art-Mur Foster, Nîmes, France
2005 - Pay Attention, Fresh Paint!, City Hall, Garons, France
2004 - Drawings, Galerie La Palette, Toulon, France
2001 - Eight Academies of Fine Arts (graduate exhibition), National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, China
2022 - Beijing Biennale, Beijing, CN
2022 - Waiting for Jim, Gowen, Geneva, CH
2022 - ArtParis Art Fair, with Gowen Contemporary, Paris, FR
2020 - Contemporary Show Off, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong
2020 - Paris Art Fair (online), with Gowen Contemporary
2020 - artgenève art fair, with Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 - Exhibition of Han Feng’s Private Art Collection, Han Feng Art Space, Shanghai, China
2016 - Standing by Themselves: China Now, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong
2015 - Artists at Play, de Sarthe Gallery, Beijing, China
2015 - You, I, Among Us, de Sarthe Gallery, Beijing, China
2014 - Don’t Look Back, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Brussels, Belgium
2014 - 70/ 80 – La mutation générationnelle de l’art contemporain chinois, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2012 - Circusée — Yan Club Arts Center 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Yan Club Arts Center, Beijing, China
2011 - La vie est ailleurs, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
2011 - Made in China, Hélène Bailly Gallery, Paris, France
2010 - The Yangjingbang Culture, Galerie Dumonteil, Shanghai, China
2009 - Depths, Yan Club Arts Center, Beijing, China
2008 - Journey to the End of the Night, Yan Club Arts Center, Beijing, China
2006 - Fromage et Dessert, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, France
2006 - Histoire d’Eau, ville de Gréou, France
2005 - From a Figure to Another, Carré d’Art-Mur Foster, Nîmes, France
2005 - Pay Attention, Fresh Paint!, City Hall, Garons, France
2004 - Drawings, Galerie La Palette, Toulon, France
2001 - Eight Academies of Fine Arts (graduate exhibition), National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, China
