Chu Teh-Chun

Dates: 4.3.2009 to 28.3.2009. Jean-Paul Desroches, Conservateur Gnral du Patrimoine, Muse des arts asiatiques-Guimet, Paris, says of Chu's work: 'It is in art, perilous because without regret, that Chu The-Chun delivers the most direct expression of his being. A studio man and not a plein-air painter, he divides his time between the easel and the desk of the scholar. He reserves colour for the daytime and for dusk he chooses ink. In the sunlight he becomes the bard of cosmic splendours, while the setting sun, emotion and meditation carry him away.' In his works on paper Chu employs the traditional Chinese technique of wash painting, combining the customary black with coloured inks in pale greens and dusty reds for many of the works. Further drawing on traditional motifs the ink paintings are in both the 'quafu' or vertical and the 'shoujan' or horizontal format. In his oil paintings Chu depicts the same flowing abstract forms through a different medium, seeing a return to the Western practices of his early career.

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