The painter Hsiao Chin, born in Shanghai in 1935 and raised in Taiwan, now lives in Italy and can be considered as one of the most important intermediaries of art between the East and West. In 1956, he was a founding member of the art group Ton-Fan, which was the first organized body of abstract painters in China. That same year, Hsiao Chin went to Spain on a scholarship. He subsequently spent longer work periods in, among other places, Paris, London, New York, and Milan. He finally settled in Milan, where he was a professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera from 1985 to 1997. At the invitation of the Taiwan government, he returned to his childhood home for the first time in 1978 and campaigned for the establishment of art museums. In 2015, in honor of Hsiao Chin’s 80th birthday, the National Taiwan Museum of Art presented a major retrospective of his artwork.
Hsiao Chin’s highly unique oeuvre is best comprehended when considered with his biography in mind, as his personal development is mirrored in the transformation of his artistic concepts. The immaterial forms created by the vibrant and contrast-rich surfaces of color found in his abstract and highly aesthetic compositions merge the spirit of traditional Eastern aesthetics with the stylistic principles of 20thcentury, Western, non-figurative art.
Now, for the first time since the 1998 retrospective at the Institut Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, DIE GALERIE is presenting a broad selection of Hsiao Chin’s artwork in Germany. Featuring numerous paintings and works on paper, the exhibition spans over 50 years of the artist’s creative production
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