“Supernova” – Solo Exhibition of Kai CHEN
Visual Arts
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Leo Gallery is pleased to present Supernova, the debut Hong Kong solo exhibition of emerging Chinese artist, Kai Chen. Featuring a new series of abstract paintings.
Throughout the six years in San Francisco and Shanghai, brushstrokes flowed, melted, and deposited; atoms were in motion, dissipated, and combined in the painting. When the electronic fluorescent screen flickers day and night, we view the painting silently, picking up a sense of eternal solidification from the fleeting brushstrokes. In the solo exhibition, “Supernova”, everything is transformed into stardust, wandering between the”moonlight and snow”, converging with clear and chaotic traces, veiling the countless lights and annihilation of stars after they explode. “Days/Nights” series and “Untitled (Supernova I, II)” are selected from Kai’s egg tempera and oil paintings from recent years. The formation of the work continues from 2016 to the present, starting with a series of coloured pencil drawings – the fragile paper and the subtle layers of colour represent a direct way of self-expression. From the works of coloured pencil to those of egg tempera and oil paint, Kai’s painting methods and researches of materials are based on the classical historical imprints of oil painting, which are his attempts of transforming scales, color layers, strength of the brushstrokes, sensitivity, diversity, richness and the texture. Painting is akind oftraining of imagination, which accommodates the boundaries of self-knowledge in modernity.¹
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