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  • Chu Kaiyan
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1996 Born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province

2018 Graduated from the Fine Art Department of Minzu University of China with a bachelor´s degree

Currently Studies at the Painting Department of Royal College of Art for a master´s degree 

 

GROUP EXHIBITION

2019

2019 Art Nova 100,Guardian Art Center,BeiJing,China

Backward Reading: An Approach of Recollection, 508 Gallery, London, United Kingdom

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 I prefer the quiet form of the painting, and there are strong narrative and explosive stories behind the picture. My choice of painting style comes mostly from my depressed adolescence. I often recall the whispering between my classmates in the middle school. This kind of nonsense whispering was not allowed in the class. While the content of the whispering, the teachers do not know at all.It is very similar to the relationship that between the adults’ world and the childrens’ world. Speaking in the class is inappropriate, but this model is typical in other situations. Many of the children's expressions are full of creativity and explosion, many straightforward and naive questions are philosophical thinking but neglected by the ‘mature' . We use extremely skilled logic in the adult world to suppress children's ‘whispering'. Therefore, my picture is trying to construct an explosive ‘whisper'.

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