CHU Teh-Chun (1920–2014) is a major figure in the history of gestural abstract painting. 

After his first works on jute canvas, the holes of which he plugged with rabbit’s foot glue, the format of his canvases continued to grow, culminating in monumental paintings from the 1990s onwards, in line with Chu’s own growing recognition.

This extension of the pictorial field made the alternation between transparency and opacity increasingly prominent and spectacular, giving rise to diffuse and elusive forms, at once defined and buffeted by the broad, supple movements of the Chinese brushes of all qualities and sizes that Chu accumulated and used.

Such a result, alternating between focusing and unfocusing the gaze, between foveate and peripheral vision, implied a real choreography on the part of the painter, who, even in his older years, never made use of assistants (for him, painting was about translating and transmitting inner emotions, and the pictorial action must be as direct and physical, as automatic and intransitive as possible).

Monograph CHU Teh-Chun . In Nebula

Hors-série Connaissance, Editions Gallimard, format : 195 x 250, Pages : 240

EAN : 9782073057419

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Photo 1 : CHU Teh-Chun in his atelier in Vitry - 1991 ©Fondation CHU Teh-Chun

Photo 2 : Monograph CHU Teh-Chun - In Nebula - Matthieur Poirier