Qiuchi Chen
Painter
Qiuchi Chen was born in a small village in the district town of Dehui, Jilin Province in the northeast of China. His studies were marked by the "cultural revolution" and its excesses.
After completing his studies, he worked as a construction worker, but the work was tedious and difficult. Qiuchi Chen had had a well kept secret since childhood: his passion for art! To exercise it he copied cartoon characters, while dreaming one day of learning to draw and paint.
This resulted in his enrolling in evening classes at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Normal University of the Northeast. He had finally found a way for self expression. Thanks to his work, he was able to demonstrate all the things that he had never been able to say before about the world and society.
His paintings are of weapons, deserts, famous buildings .... and symbolic representations of human heads, crying, screaming, laughing, agglomerating, multiplying and spreading like a virus.
For Qiuchi Chen, a dilemma and an evolutionary choice arises. Either we get closer to nature and its preservation or we plunge into war along with the economic and industrial development that leads to destruction. He considers how ubiquitous technology has penetrated minds and all areas of life, seeming to us the only acceptable model of evolution. Mind and spirit are being controlled by this technology.
But through his paintings Chen Qiuchi tries to "shake" us, and resuscitate love in the human heart while making us aware of the value of life, freedom, human rights and to point out that our desires for expansion and development are ultimately destructive.
Artmajeur
After completing his studies, he worked as a construction worker, but the work was tedious and difficult. Qiuchi Chen had had a well kept secret since childhood: his passion for art! To exercise it he copied cartoon characters, while dreaming one day of learning to draw and paint.
This resulted in his enrolling in evening classes at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Normal University of the Northeast. He had finally found a way for self expression. Thanks to his work, he was able to demonstrate all the things that he had never been able to say before about the world and society.
His paintings are of weapons, deserts, famous buildings .... and symbolic representations of human heads, crying, screaming, laughing, agglomerating, multiplying and spreading like a virus.
For Qiuchi Chen, a dilemma and an evolutionary choice arises. Either we get closer to nature and its preservation or we plunge into war along with the economic and industrial development that leads to destruction. He considers how ubiquitous technology has penetrated minds and all areas of life, seeming to us the only acceptable model of evolution. Mind and spirit are being controlled by this technology.
But through his paintings Chen Qiuchi tries to "shake" us, and resuscitate love in the human heart while making us aware of the value of life, freedom, human rights and to point out that our desires for expansion and development are ultimately destructive.
Artmajeur
