Chen Zhen: Fragments d’éternité
A retrospective of prominent Chinese artist Chen Zhen highlights his broad cultural vision and personal experience.
The retrospective, titled Fragments d’éternité, features 30 iconic works including both paintings and sculptural pieces. Among the selection is Le Bureau de change, which was conceived by the artist in 1996 and produced after his death in 2004. This exhibition marks the first time that Zhen’s paintings will be shown in Paris.
Born in 1955, Zhen relocated from China to France in 1986. He chose to pursue his visionary approach, rooted in the desire to actively participate in building a new world. Zhen’s immensely rich universe draws from 30 years of personal experience of radically different environments, after going through the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese economic reform and 15 years of living in the West.
Zhen gradually abandoned painting and from 1989 and began working directly with the object. His sculptures allowed him to question the relationship between man, consumer society and nature. Zhen’s work offers multiple ways of interpretation, presenting a sometimes dreamlike and unsettling vision of the world.
Fragments d’éternité is on display from Monday 26 April – Saturday 7 June 2014 at Galerie Perrotin, Paris.
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