The "Chronology - Chen Qi Art Exhibition" will showcase over 60 works, making it the largest personal exhibition of Chen Qi's artistic career to date. The reason why it is named "Time Genealogy" comes from the name of his most representative series of recent works, "Time Genealogy". This exhibition focuses on Chen Qi's exploration of the relationship between artistic concepts, materials, craftsmanship, and personal expression through this group of works; On the other hand, the "Chronology" also uses "time" as a clue to briefly outline several important stages of Chen Qi's artistic development and related major works. Therefore, this exhibition not only covers Chen Qi's representative works since the late 1980s, such as the well-known "Ming style", "Qin", "He", "Interpretation", "Dream Butterfly", "Water" and other series of works in the academic community, but also highlights his latest works created on the theme of "Time Genealogy" in the past three years. The highlights of the exhibition include a large watermark print of 4 meters by 14 meters titled "2012", a series of handmade books titled "Brief History of Time", cross media works titled "Chu Ci" and "Rainbow" from the "Brief History of Time" series, as well as interactive media works from the "Brief History of Time" series
The exploration of one's own spiritual world and the contemplation of universal sentiment have always been the concerns of Chen Qi. Based on this, his artistic creation has gradually shown a new development trend since 2000, firstly, the transition from realism to abstraction in painting expression; The second is to constantly make diversified attempts in creative techniques. Until the series of works such as "Water" and "A Brief History of Time", regionalism no longer restricts Chen Qi's expression of creative ideas, and the ultimate question of the meaning of life, which is a common topic among humans, has become the core connotation of his works
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