Zhen
Chen
Zhen
Chen
Chen
Chinese, 1955 — 2000
Placing the body, illness and Chinese medicine at the heart of his work, Chen Zhen has explored the relationships between matter and spirit, the collective and the individual, interiority and exteriority all his life. Born into a family of doctors with a command of both English and French, he has endeavoured, through his work, to connect traditional Chinese thought to Western culture.
Taking advantage of China’s opening under Deng Xiaoping in 1986, he emigrated and settled in Paris, enrolling in the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. Through his creations, especially his singularly composite installations, Chen Zhen has forged philosophical, sensitive links uniting Western modernity with the traditions of Confucian and Maoist China.
Chen Zhen’s installation Jue Chang, Dancing Body - Drumming Mind (The Last Song) is in the Pinault Collection. It was presented in 2009 during the exhibition "Un certain état du monde ?" (“A Certain State of the World?”) at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow.
Taking advantage of China’s opening under Deng Xiaoping in 1986, he emigrated and settled in Paris, enrolling in the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. Through his creations, especially his singularly composite installations, Chen Zhen has forged philosophical, sensitive links uniting Western modernity with the traditions of Confucian and Maoist China.
Chen Zhen’s installation Jue Chang, Dancing Body - Drumming Mind (The Last Song) is in the Pinault Collection. It was presented in 2009 during the exhibition "Un certain état du monde ?" (“A Certain State of the World?”) at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow.
