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Qiu Chi Chen

Qiuchi Chen is a Chinese artist.

Early Life Born in JiLin, China. Qiuchi Chen graduated from Art Faculty of Northeasten Normal University in 1987. Since then, He began his career as a liberal-occupation artist since the“YUANMINGYUAN Stage” in China at the beginning of 1990. His works have been exhibited in many major cities, like Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, London, Cologne and Berlin and in Italy several times. He participated in “Art Cologne” and “Seoul International Art Fair”. He received strict training on modeling ability and oil painting technique. However, as a contemporary artist, He has his own conscience. He cannot but concern himself with the reality, the changes and problems occurring in the process of development of human society.

Career Cynical Realism Period The movement called Cynical Realism, in Chinese Wanshi Xianshizhuyi 玩世现实主义, was born autonomously and branched out from Beijing after the student protests of the Democratic Spring in 1989, resulted in the Tien’ammen Square massacre on June 4th of the same year.

Qiuchi Chen’s paintings certainly share quality and topics similar to other cynical realists, but his own attention goes over the subjects repeated by the other artists. Technically enviable, the artist always expresses his own opinion about the matters that each individual should speak and discuss about, indeed, his “little faces”, which look like him a bit, dominated by red, orange and sometimes grey tones or multicolor, are a symbol which, according to the image that they absorb like a virus, express happiness, anger or fear.

When his criticism is for wars and weapons, his airplanes, shotguns and tanks are covered by a lot of “little faces” and are “humanized” till make them loose their own destructive power, whereas other times he simply wants to express his feelings of love towards this world by painting smiling flowers.

His aim is to be understood through an universal language, to converse with the whole humanity, so he often puts together Chinese and Western symbols, mixing surrealism with pop elements.

Most of Qiuchi Chen’s work is visually focused on the human head’s contour to reflect the process of the existential thought which day by day leads all us and which is our world.