Long Museum (West Bund) is delighted to announce a forthcoming solo show of the acclaimed contemporary abstract painter Ding Yi, entitled What's Left to Appear. The exhibition runs from 7th June to 26th July 2015 and is curated by Dr Shane McCausland of SOAS, University of London.

Regarded as one of China's foremost artists and a pioneer of abstraction, Ding Yi (b. 1962, Shanghai) has been painting crosses since the late 1980s: his series of paintings, whether predominantly black, based on tartan or else elaborated in intense fluorescent colours, all bear the title Appearance of Crosses with a date. The cross, whether a + or an X, is a motif that the artist has declared is a formal mark without meaning, while the context of this work is the industrial-paced development of the urban environment in post-socialist China. His perennial idiom -- the grid -- speaks to a context in place and time, through its association with the frenetic communications networks and distinctive fluorescence of the contemporary city.