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The exhibition walked visitors through a series of emblematic paintings produced from 1955 onwards, the year in which Chu settled permanently in Paris, close to the Western avant-garde.
✨ On display there were almost 50 major works on canvas, produced between 1951 and 2004, from private and public collections.
✨ A third of these paintings had never been exhibited before.
✨ None had been exhibited in the last 10 years (with the exception of the one at the Musée d’art moderne de Paris ‘Composition N°228’ – 1966.
✨ The exhibition featured a seascape entitled ‘On the banks of the Jialing’ dating from 1951, a rare example of the artist’s work before his arrival in Paris.
✨Two paintings from 1956, ‘Sans Titre’ and ‘Vue lointaine d’une ville’, were produced in his first Paris studio on rue Lhomond, a tiny room that served as both his home and workplace, and in which he lived for two years.
✨ Exhibition of a very large painting from the ‘Neige’ series: ‘Profusion hivernale’ – diptych – 200 x 500 cm – 1988.
Chu Teh-Chun. In Nebula it’s also :
✨ A record time of just 10 months to complete the retrospective exhibition at the Fondazione Cini and to publish a new monograph devoted to Chu published by Gallimard.
✨ More than 20 companies involved in bringing these two projects to fruition.
✨ More than 100 people who worked on the exhibition and the new monograph.
✨ 6 weeks of work to achieve the scenography at the Fondazione Cini.
✨ Over 400 m2 of partition walling for the scenography.
✨ More than 40 spotlights installed on tracks built for the exhibition.
✨ All the building materials and the paintings had to be delivered to the island by boat.
✨ Over 70 press articles
Video : Exhibition set-up – timelapse video © Fondation CHU Teh-Chun
Photos : Exhibition set-up © Fondation CHU Teh-Chun
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