｜EXHIBITION
The First Art Beijing Fine Art Fair will be held at the Beijing Agriculture Exhibition Center on November 6, 2009, and the Main Trend Gallery will showcase the works of Chan Kin Chung, a Chinese painter living in France. Chan Kin Chung is known for his realistic landscape paintings, capturing the ordinary corners of nature. Unlike other landscape painters who tend to focus on the beauty and magnificence of the scenery, Chan Kin Chung focuses on the tranquility and imagination of the everyday landscape.
Being a second-generation post-war Chinese painter, Chan was born in Guangzhou and later moved to Hong Kong, he studied and settled in France in 1969. The first-generation post-war painters, such as Xu Beihong and Lin Fengmian, put forward the theory of integrating Chinese and Western art and making up for the shortcomings of Chinese art with Western strengths. Chan Kin Chung, a second-generation post-war painter, lives in a time and space where generations are changing and new art is emerging. Under such an artistic atmosphere, classical or modern, realistic or abstract is an influential direction in his creativity. Gradually, he found his own artistic style by integrating the freehand techniques of Chinese landscape painting into Western landscape oil paintings, combining Western painting skills with Eastern poetic sentiments. Chan has a love for painting and respect for tradition. In the course of his career, he gradually discovered that what he liked was pure painting rather than abstract concepts. From his works, we can see the richness of his painterly nature, which is why Chan's painting style has changed from the early "Composition" series to the later landscape works.
The uniqueness of Chan Kin Chung's painting, whether in the Composition series or in realistic landscapes, lies in his depiction of the tranquility of natural landscapes. It's as if time has been frozen and the unusual stillness has been preserved on the canvas. Everything looks so calm, but it is also so moving. His works have a composition similar to photography, and the realistic colors have a geometric flavor: rusty iron railings, vine-covered walls, and narrow paths between houses nestled in mountains, all exuding a sense of solitude and silence.
In contrast to Western materialism, classical Chinese landscape painting in the Song dynasty valued nature, and the pursuit of a simple and peaceful life, and projected the painter's philosophy of life into his works. Chan Kin Chung's rigorous composition and serene colors seem to reflect his own pursuit of art. His realistic paintings are not only to look at but also to contemplate and explore.
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｜Chan Kin Chung──A Poetry of the Things Seen｜
⌈Look over Chan Kin-Chung’s works, he transmits a vision rather than just a thing seen, an atmosphere rather than a reality.｜Jacques Leenhardt, Art Critic⌋ |
⌈Solemnly quiet, gracefully subdued, serenely deep, and mysterious; this is how Chan Kin-Chung’s oeuvre seems in style. His inimitable demeanor and aesthetic character find expression in his landscape paintings as well.｜Xia Shuo-Qi(夏碩琦), Art Critic⌋ |
Chan Kin Chung──A Poetry of the Things Seen
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