Crazy City

                                                                                                                     By      Gu Zhenqing

Ding Xinhua has insisted painting alone in northern part of Shaanxi province for many years. Vagarious urbanization movement has become one of the final solution to the long standing problems about agriculture，rural areas and peasantry. Under the guise of modernity inertia, urbanization has irreversible attitude towards every aspect of Chinese agriculture civilization. As Chinese society transformed rapidly, all traditional ethical norms are constantly deconstructed. More and more urbanized Chinese society mired in the jungle rules of evolution due to the epidemic utilitarianism, mammonism. Animals and monster are rampant in the crazy city, just as what is showed in Ding’s works, which are different from photos taken directly in the street. He painted on original photos so that the final pictures with caricature have strong contrast with the original one. Two patterns coexisting in his works give deep impression upon visitors. Spatial temporal differentiation in his works generates a solemn witty banter and irony. His works are full of metaphorical complex narration that forms sense of order beyond earthliness. To Ding freedom is not a matter of circumstances and ecological chain but of one’s ability. It is a matter of how much a man can get rid of restriction and hamper, sluggishness and own tendency or how he extricates himself from dependence and dissemination. Ding lives and works with high aspiration and interest toward life in a small city in Loess plateau, he apperceives humanity in the process of urbanization as well as looks back to the elapsing traditional culture and Spiritual values.