Ginkgo Space is proud to announce the opening of the young artist Chi Qun’s upcoming solo show “Chi Qun” which opens on Nov 21, 2015 at 4 PM. The important Japanese art critic and academic Chiba Shigeo has provided the overall academic direction for the show. Based on her motivation, concept as well as method of “line” as form, the upcoming exhibition will display over ten works on canvas and one work on paper which show a further investigation of Chi Qun in a larger space and surface, and will be on-show until Dec 14, 2015.
Chi Qun’s works are developed aroundlines, but the so-called ‘lines’are not illustrated by brushes dipped with paints, but rather are born with thescraping act on canvas. It is not a result of ‘addingon’ but ‘thinning out’. The ‘thinning out’ method not only allows lines to emerge, but also reveals variations oflayers and gestates an open space. Nevertheless, because these lines aregenerated through the canvas being scraped and thinned out, little by little,and gradually fill the whole image (or we should say, even though the linesfill the entire image), the space gestated within those lines cannot breakaway. This results in a visual moment where the lines metamorphose intovibrating strings, bringing a sense of something strongly woven to her work.
Though Chi Qun’sworks appear sedate and dignified, the elements (mind, senses, spirit andthoughts) are expressed in a controlled way, and aggregate as a whole on thecanvas. Chi Qun’s ‘abstract’ in this way – she does not illustrate anything specific, and does not stop at easyformative compositions. Instead, she seeks the unity of mind, senses, spiritand thoughts, turning the ineffable into visible elements via lines, colours,spaces, light and shadow. Though these elements are neutral, they are employedby the artist to create a ‘status’close to the essence of the artist.
Chiba Shigeo
Ginkgo Space strives to place contemporary Chinese artists and their artistic practice in the field of study of important international curators and academics, and has specially invited Chiba Shigeo to take over the academic direction for this exhibition.
Chiba Shigeo is one of the leading experts on contemporary Asian art and is a professor at Japan’s Chubu University in Nagoya. He was the curator of the National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo) from 1975 to 2001 as well as the Japanese advisor for “Kassel Documenta” (1985), the research coordinator of “Japon des Avants Gardes” (Pompidou Center, Paris, 1986–1987), the Japanese commissioner of “Conceptualist Art” (Queens Museum, New York, 1999), and the curator of “Contemporary Art of China and Japan” (Busan City Museum of Art, Busan, 2010). His writings include Japanese Art Yet to be Born, The Actual Situation of Art and Art as Deviation amongst many other important works. Chiba Shigeo began his research on Korean contemporary art in 1970s, and came to China for observing the 85’ Avant-garde Art Movement in 1987. From then on, he kept observing Chinese contemporary art. He has written and researched in-depth analysis of the creation of Chinese contemporary art since 1992 when Chinese contemporary art began to make its first strides onto the global stage.
Chi Qun
1981 Born in Zhucheng, Shandong Province
2006 Graduated from the Mural Painting Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, BA
2010 Graduated from the Mural Painting Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, MA
Currently lives and works in Beijing
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Chi Qun, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China
Two Different Relationships, Mingtai Space, Beijing, China
2014 Blink-Chi Qun Solo Exhibition, M50 Art Space, Shanghai, China
Selected Group Exhibitios
2015 Silent Poetry–Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, China Cultural Centre, Sydney, Australia;
Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, Australia
The Boundaries of Order, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Abstract, L-Art Gallary, Chengdu, China
Now Is Future, Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany
2014 Cool Order, Ovation Art Space, Beijing, China
New Generation of Abstract Art, Sishang Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Ode to Youth–China-Korea Young Artists Exhibition, Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Visibleinvisible 3, Hongkun Museum of Fine Art, Beijing, China
Art Nova 100, Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
Changing: Abstracts in China, Lelege Art Space, Beijing, China
Pure and Empty, Phoenix Art Center, Shanghai, China; Beijing, China
An Exhibition for Painting Art – The 7th Exhibition of AMNUA Zero Program, Art Museum of
Nanjing University of The Arts, Nanjing, China
The Temperature of Lines, Mingtai Space, Beijing, China
Manual Machines, Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing, China
2013 Nothing White, Gland Space, Beijing, China
Impression Image, Beijing Space, Beijing, China
Art Nova 100, SZ Art Space, Beijing, China
Korean-Chinese Modern Art Exhibition, Korean Cultural Center, Beijing, China
Abstract Talk: Chi Qun & Su Yi, G1 Gallery, Shanghai, China
Beyond The Mind, Loftooo Art Space, Shanghai, China
2012 The Halo Effect, V Art Center, Shanghai, China
At Rest — The Fifth Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China
2011 Art Nova 100, Ditan Park, Beijing, China; Jinghan Exhibition Center, Guangzhou, China;
Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai, China; Sujia Galley, Wuxi, China
Micro life, Soka Art Center, Taipei, China
2010 The Start of a Long Journey – 2011 CAFA Excellent Graduation Works, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2006 Academy Lights, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Collection
2010 CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
