HSIAO CHIN (XIAO QIN)

Estimated Value:

800 € - 1.200 €

Schätzpreis:

800 €

Description:

Shanghai, born 1935
25 x 25 cm R.
No title, 1988. Acyl on paper, framed under glass. Signed lower right: Hsiao (in letters), Qin (in Chinese character) and Ba Ba (88).
Old European private collection, collected in the family before 1990
Born in Shanghai in 1935, Hsiao Chin left the Chinese mainland for Taiwan in the late 1940s. He began studying art in 1952, and in 1956 co-founded the Ton Fan Group. For most of his subsequent career, Hsiao moved between various European and American cities; he currently lives and works between Taiwan and Milan, Italy. In the 1960s, he became interested in Zen, Taoism and thoughts of Lao Zhuang and created the abstract "Tao", "Zen", and "Qi" series, In recent years, he has held major solo exhibitions at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, the Triennale Bovisa in Milan, and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. In 2018, the China Art Museum in Shanghai announced the establishment of the Hsiao Chin Art Research Centre. His work can also be seen in the collections of the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, the Museum of Modern Art, New York etc.

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