Chu Teh-Chun's most significant retrospective exhibition in recent years has opened - by YiTiao Art

朱德群近年来最重要的回顾展开幕，十余件作品首次亮相, Chu Teh-Chun's most significant retrospective exhibition in recent years has opened, featuring over ten artworks making their debut appearance
By Yu Ru Yitiao Art - May 2024
Yitiao Art published an interview with Matthieu Poirier, art historian, curator of the exhibition, where he shares his creative vision influenced by Chu Teh-Chun. The interview delves into Chu Teh-Chun's artistic journey and provides a comprehensive overview of his exhibition, "In Nebula," held in Venice.
A retrospective of the work of Chu Teh-Chun (1920-2014), takes place at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini from April 20 to June 30, 2024, on the occasion of the sixtieth edition of theVenice Biennale of international art.
Curator: Matthieu Poirier
Organized in partnership with Fondazione Giorgio Cini, it 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 will guide visitors through a series of emblematic paintings produced from 1955 onwards, the year Chu settled permanently in Paris, close to the Western avant-garde. A new monograph on the artist, published by Éditions Gallimard, Paris, with a text by Matthieu Poirier, accompanies the event.
This exhibition will challenge the classic retrospective, opening with recent large works and progressing in reverse chronological order back to his earliest small-format paintings. The three-dimensional scenography will resonate with the uncertain space of Chu’s pictorial nebula and the complex volumes of the venue.