MENTAILITY·SPACE
I express my feelings by figurative painting. The subjects I choose are mostly from my real life. Some special scenes of the city touch me constantly. I continually observe from a window, the top of a building, out of a car or walking down a road…I also paint nude women and portray sexual desire, pleasure and allure honestly.
I don’t look for perfection, only the true emotion. The verity of personal feelings and the truth of the soul behind the appearance. I try to let my audience be touched by my paintings with the sceneries touched me.

LOST· PARADISE
In the early 1990’s, I went to study at the Central Academy of Fine Arts which was located at Wang Fujing at that time. Every time I stepped off the dormitory’s elevator at the 12th floor, I would stand by the west window and look out in the distance. At that time, there were not so many high buildings on the streets of Wang Fujing. There was a great view up there and normally I would feel better with this pleasant change of view in my eyes.
One day someone placed an old piano beside that window. With dust all over it, it quietly watched me. It was sure it would be moved to another location since there were abandoned objects here and there throughout the campus. An unexplainable grey atmosphere pervaded the whole place. I was influenced by this atmosphere so my heart was covered by this grey mood just like the piano with the grey dust. I captured this last image of the paradise in my painting and named it “Lost Paradise”.

MOVING· DESTINY
I studied in the class of advanced training of assistant professor at CAFA in 1994 and studied in the old classrooms of CAFA for more than a year. In 1995 it moved so we went to Dashanzi to continue our studies. Reluctant to depart, we still became accustomed to the new campus very quickly. In 2000, I passed the exam to go study at the higher level class of Oil Painting so I was back to the campus in Dashanzi after three or four years. I was really excited about that. As the new campus was completed in Huajiadi, I was there again for the moving of CAFA. Then in 2001, I went to the new campus of CAFA. The only difference was that this time the influence this moving put on me, was permanent...
I studied and lived in all the three locations of CAFA so I have a special love for it. The classrooms, the campus, the teaching aids and it’s special scent influenced me greatly. I stored all these memories in my heart that will forever remain in my heart with these paintings. I only hope to recount the destiny with CAFA.

Ma Bing 2002
Published in the 1st issue of “Galleries” of 2003