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Peng Ma
| He is a versatile professional artist whose artistic practice
extends to Chinese brush painting, oil painting, sculpture, and
print-making. In 1961, he graduated from Zhejiang Fine Art Institute,
now China's National Fine Art Institute. For the next 30 years,
he had taught fine art at the top Chinese fine art institute while
creating numerous artwork for exhibitions.
Ma immigrated to Canada in 1989.
Since then, he has participated in over 50 solo and group exhibitions
in Canada and in Asia. As a sculptor, his most recent outdoor
public sculptures were installed in Toronto, Saskatchewan, Vienna,
Beijing as well as Qufu, the hometown of Confucius. Among them,
13 large outdoor sculptures have made up the China-Canada Friendship
Sculpture Garden in Beijing.
As a painter, Ma has been engaged
in both oil and Chinese brush painting. Through decades of research
and artistic experiments, he strongly believes that Western and
Eastern art media share the same principles but differ only in
media and techniques.
The portfolio of Ma's paintings
becomes a multidimensional portal from the ancient past to the
present and from the East to the West, demonstrating freedom from
constrains and formulas. With energetic and exquisite brushstrokes,
he creates shape, volume, space, motion and emotions on canvas
as well as on Xuan paper.
His dream is to see Chinese
brush painting becomes a mainstream Canadian art media.
Peng Ma's Works in Private
and Public Collections:
1996 | A Nationwide Voice (Chinese
brush painting) was presented to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
and collected by the House of Commons.
1997 | Red Plum Flowers, Green
Pines and a Waterfall (Chinese brush painting) entered the permanent
art collection at Dr. Sun Yat-sen National Memorial Hall, Taipei,
Taiwan.
1998 | Plum Flowers and the
Great Wall (Chinese brush painting) collected by Templeton Investment
Inc., Toronto.
1998 | Two statues (Full-body
bronze sculpture, 110"x32"x22.5") were cast for
Magna International Inc. installed in Aurora, Ontario and Vienna,
Austria. Commissioned by Frank Stronach, Founder of Magna International
and Creator of the Fair Enterprise Philosophy.
1999 | Mt. Huang (Chinese brush
painting) collected by Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.
1999 to 2000 | Confucius (Full
body bronze sculpture 120"x40"x40"). Three Confucius
statues have been cast and permanently installed for the following
locations: Confucius' hometown Qu Fu, Shandong Province, China;
the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto in Scarborough;
the Regina City Hall, Saskatchewan, as a gift requested by the
Jinan Municipal Government in
Shandong for its sister city of Regina. A Certificate of Honour
was awarded by Qufu Government to Ma,
2002 | Mother Love (Black marble,
2.6m x 1m x 1m or 102"x39"x39"). International
City Sculpture Exhibition and Symposium in Beijing in 2002. The
sculpture is permanently installed in the Beijing International
Sculpture Park. Ma was Winner of "Excellence Award"
for this work.
2002 to 2004 | 13 sculptures were permanently installed in the
China-Canada Friendship Sculpture Garden, Beijing.
Chinese Spring (White marble, 193x50x33cm or 76"x20"x13")
Head of a Haida Chief (Bronze, 83x80x60cm or 33"x32"x24")
Canada Geese (Fibreglass, 93x80x35cm or 37"x32"x14";
47x90x29cm or 19"x35"11", 48x66x27cm or 19"x26"x11")
Good Morning, Frog! (Bronze; 40.5x150x50cm or 16"x59"x20")
Pillar of Gods (Granite & bronze; 430x180x180cm or 169"x71"x71")
Maple Leaf (Black marble & bronze, 79x60x60cm or 31"x24"x24")
Battling SARS (Bronze, 127x90x50cm or 50"x35"x20")
Passage of Time (Mineral ore, 82x177x76cm or 32"x70"x20")
Inuit Mother and Children (White granite, 210x110x95cm or 83"x43"x37")
Dialogue (Granite, 75x275x135cm or 30"x108"x53")
Rhythm (Grey marble, 119x79x66cm or 47"x31"x26")
Fun Fishing (Recycled steel, 300x500x5cm or 118"x187"x2")
True North, Strong and Free (Various rock, 168x155x40cm or 66"x61"x16")
2006 | Head of a Master (Bronze). Commissioned by a Buddhist Temple
in Toronto.
Publications about his art
include:
Peng Ma's Chinese Brush Painting.
Toronto: TSAR Publications, 2008.
China-Canada Friendship Sculpture Garden. Beijing: Foreign Language
Press, 2004.
A Collection of Peng Ma's Chinese Brush Painting. Taiwan: Dynasty,
1997.
Contact Information:
Peng Ma's studio: 1515 Danforth
Ave. Toronto, Ont. Canada, M4J 5C3
Email: pengma@candesign.com
Telephone: 416-469-1996
Websites: www.candesign.com/maplegallery
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'Mid-Summer Bounty'
(Chinese brush painting, 2008) |
Covers of Peng Ma's
art book published in Taiwan. |
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Cover of China-Canada
Friendship Sculpture Garden Publication |
Cover of Peng Ma's
Chinese Brush Painting in Canada |
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'Confucius' (bronze,
2000)
Regina City Hall |
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'Winter's Tale' (Chinese
brush painting, 2008) |
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