Opening Wednesday 5 August 2009, drinks with the artist 6-8 PM.Eva Breuer Art Dealer is pleased to announce the opening of Zhong Chen’s Beijing Girl 2009. The twenty-six paintings in this show will continue Chen’s internationally sought after series of portrait and landscape paintings, which are now permanent fixtures in public gallery prizes such as the Archibald. Throughout his career Chen, having moved to Australia from China in 1989, at age twenty, has explored his transcultural identity through a melding of Eastern and Western influences such as in the monumental Huang Sisters (2009), finalist in the 2009 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize.
Both change and continuity are evident in this new work – while Chen’s approach has evolved to bold, gestural canvases, beyond the pixel paintings that brought him his earliest recognition, he has continued to work in the portrait and landscape genres and to explore historical and contemporary aspects of Chinese culture.
The Beijing Girl series considers the depiction of the female image in both contemporary and historical Chinese culture. The Girls series are often city or region specific, (the previous paintings were based on Guangzhou girls). In this show the new Beijing muse will be hung side by side with Zhong’s other major subject – the Australian landscape – many of which have been Wynn Prize finalists, and acquired by Macquarie Bank and other important collections.
Both change and continuity are evident in this new work – while Chen’s approach has evolved to bold, gestural canvases, beyond the pixel paintings that brought him his earliest recognition, he has continued to work in the portrait and landscape genres and to explore historical and contemporary aspects of Chinese culture.
The Beijing Girl series considers the depiction of the female image in both contemporary and historical Chinese culture. The Girls series are often city or region specific, (the previous paintings were based on Guangzhou girls). In this show the new Beijing muse will be hung side by side with Zhong’s other major subject – the Australian landscape – many of which have been Wynn Prize finalists, and acquired by Macquarie Bank and other important collections.
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Chen has been the recipient of numerous coveted awards including the 2009 Salon des Refusés People’s Choice Award, he was a finalist in the 2008 Sulman Prize, the 2007 and 2008 Archibald Prize and the Wynne Prize in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Chen was also awarded the Samstag Scholarship in 1998, allowing him to complete a Master of Fine Arts at the Chelsea College of Arts in London, two Australia Council grants (2001, 2006) and the SBS Federation Art Award. His works are held in numerous collections including the Art Gallery of South Australia, BHP and Macquarie University. He has exhibited internationally in New York, China, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong, including at the Hong Kong, Singapore and New York Asian Art Fairs.
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