Organized in partnership with Fondazione Giorgio Cini, this retrospective exhibition takes place on the Isola San Giorgio Maggiore, across the Grand Canal from the Piazza San Marco, in Venice. Produced with the support of the CHU Teh-Chun Foundation and curated by art historian Matthieu Poirier, this is the most important exhibition in recent years dedicated to this Franco-Chinese painter, one of the key players in abstract art alongside Hans Hartung and Helen Frankenthaler.

Featuring exceptional loans, including one from the Musée d’art moderne de Paris, the exhibition guides visitors through a series of emblematic paintings produced from 1955 onwards, the year Chu settled permanently in Paris. 

A new monograph on the artist, published by Éditions Gallimard, Paris, with a text by Matthieu Poirier, accompanies the event.

Key figures :

✨15.000 visitors

✨10 months to finalise the exhibition at the Fondazione Cini and to publish a new monograph with Gallimard

✨More than 20 companies were mobilised to bring these two fine projects to fruition

✨More than 100 people worked on the exhibition and the book

✨6 weeks of work to create the scenography at the Fondazione Cini

✨More than 400 m2 of partitions for the scenography

✨More than 40 spotlights

3D virtual visit mapping and photos © Fondation CHU Teh-Chun