Ode to the Way Home: Tie Yang Art Exhibition

Exhibition Info

Exhibition Period　10 September 2023 – 3 January 2024

Exhibition Venue　3rd Floor Exhibition Hall, TAM

Chief Director　Du Pengfei

Curator　Xu Hong

Project Coordination　Wang Chenya　Sun Yiwei

Academic Assistant　Ge Xiuzhi　Li Xing

Visual Director　Wang Peng

Visual Design　Yang Hui

Display Design　Guo Bin

Exhibition Team　Sun Yiwei　Guo Bin　Cheng Sirui　Yang Jialin　Deng Haozhe

Publicity Team　Li Zhe　Liu Yaomeng　Zhou Xinxin　Xiao Fei

Education Program　Zhang Ming　Zhou Ying　Wang Wenhui　Zhang Ruiqi

English Translation　Xu Xiaofan

English Proofreading　Jiang Zhenhao

Host　Tsinghua University Art Museum

Co-organizer　Tie Yang Art Museum　Hebei University of Science and Technology

Exhibition Profile

Tie Yang (1935- ) is an artist schooled in the system of Chinese art education in the 1950s, after the founding of People’s Republic of China. His creations engage a wide range of art forms and materials, and are of remarkable artistic character. Tie Yang describes himself as a laborer who expresses, with his distinct artistic language that is sincere and pure, the characters of the land, of people’s nostalgia, as well as the culture of the specific locations he chooses to represent: the Jizhong Plain, the land of western Hebei, and the Taihang mountains. The seemingly random strokes and colors in these images form a narrative style that is both painterly and literary: they are refreshingly timeless, unadorned and honest, condensed and generous, as well as with a strong spiritual and poetic character distinctly Chinese. This exhibition displays Tie Yang’s oil paintings, watercolor and gouache paintings, ink paintings, illustrations and other works of art over the past 70 years of his career, in the hope that the audience will be able to detect the nuanced perceptions and love of an outstanding artist who feels for his hometown and the everyday life he lives. It is also our hope that the audience can have an idea of the artist’s contributions to, and achievements in, the in-depth exploration of art forms and languages, as well as in the fusion of Chinese and Western cultures and artistic innovations.

Artist Profile

Tie Yang was born in Hebei Province in 1935 and graduated from the Department of Stage Design at The Central Academy of Drama in 1960. Now he is the director of Tie Yang Art Research Institute of Hebei University of Science and Technology, head direction of Tie Yang Art Museum, a distinguished researcher of Chinese National Academy of Arts, and a full-time painter of Hebei Painting Academy. He is a professor and a national-level artist. He has held solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia and America, and his works have been collected by the National Art Museum of China and many art museums across Europe, Asia and America. As a writer, Tie Yang has already published 3 million words of literary works, including the essay collection Mother's Big Bowl, Waiting for a Cuckoo, and the novel Me etc.