Born in 1935 in Taipei, Chen Cheng-Hsiung is an abstract painter with an international vision. He has devoted his time to studying abstract painting and Taiwanese aboriginal art, and collecting textile and primitive art. In 1958 Chen began studying modern art via publications, which was his introduction to abstract art and led to his understanding and continuous exploration of abstract painting. Since 1960s, Chen has been active in the Taiwanese and international art scene, and has held exhibitions in Tokyo, Osaka, the United States and France. While traveling abroad to exhibit his work in the 1980s, Chen got acquainted with the Belgian artist Pierre Alechinsky, Dutch painter Karel Appel, American painter and printmaker Sam Francis, Chinese-American visual artist and poet Walasse Ting and the French art critic Pierre Restany.

Chen's painting belongs to the eastern tradition of emotive abstraction and draws inspiration from primitive art and deeply rooted culture. He combines lines, rich color and unrestrained brushwork to form reverberating, surging rhythms; black lines weave through space bounded with color, and his abstract conceptualizations are suffused with ever changing visual metaphors. Chen makes visible his internal world, thus manifesting experiences of his internal reality to express the abstract existence of the human spirit. His work was honored at the 1999 Florence Biennale with the Lorenzo il Magnifico Career Achievement in the Arts Award. In the last decade, Chen has been invited to lecture on abstract art at various museums, art academies and universities in Mainland China. The popularity of his work is a testament to its creative and conceptual power. Chen has spared no effort in promoting art exchanges between China and Taiwan.

About Lecure

Artist:Chen Cheng-Hsiung
Title:My Odyssey in Abstract Painting
Date:2014/06/22,14: 30－16: 30
Venue:TFAM auditorium(BF)

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