The collages of Ding Liren
Overview
Intro
The Collection de l’Art Brut is holding its first solo show of works by Chinese artist Ding Liren.
Ding Liren was born in 1930 and grew up in a rural area of Jiangsu province in eastern China. At the age of five, he developed a passion for insects, especially grasshoppers, mosquitoes, bees, butterflies, dragonflies and locusts. He would spend time observing the way they flew and listening intently to their calls, buzzes and whistles. He and his school friends also hunted for beetles and made little wooden shelters for them.Ding’s curiosity for nature led him to study biology, although he harboured an obvious interest in fine art. In the late 1950s, he joined an entomology research centre, where he devoted his time to painting insects. Insect painting is a fully fledged genre of traditional Chinese art: entomology labs commonly hire artists to produce scientifically accurate depictions of insects, and the resulting works may be displayed in natural history museums. Ding spent several years producing standardised, naturalistic paintings of dried specimens, working eight hours a day.Ding later taught decorative arts: first at a school in Shanghai, and then at a university in Guangdong. When he retired, he reconnected with his first love: insects. He no longer seeks to reproduce them faithfully, but instead to capture their movements and their vital energy. He uses collage, a technique he taught himself, as his medium of expression, working with illustrations and advertising images cut out from magazines.The 39 works on display at the Collection de l’Art Brut, all on loan from the artist, depict beetles and grasshoppers. Their varied forms, postures and colours reflect the distinctive features of each subject.Ding’s works are held in the collections of several museums in China, including the Power Station of Art in Shanghai.
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Collection de l'Art Brut
Avenue des Bergières 11 1004 Lausanne +41 21 315 25 70 art.brut@lausanne.ch |
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Adults (3-day pass including the Historical Museum of Lausanne and the Roman Museum of Lausanne-Vidy): CHF 12
AVS/AI (3-day pass including the Historical Museum of Lausanne and the Roman Museum of Lausanne-Vidy): CHF 6
Children (under 16), students, apprentices, unemployed: Free
Groups from 6 persons (price per person): CHF 6
Carer of a disabled person: Free
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- 01 October 2025
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Collection de l'Art Brut
Avenue des Bergières 11
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