Chen Han

Chen Han

China

Chen Han (born in 1970, Fuqing, Fujian Province), is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Sculpture and Public Art of China Academy of Art, member of China Sculpture Institute, Zhejiang Distinguished Expert, member of “Zhejiang Thousand Talents Program”, and director of Zhejiang Environmental Artists Association. He studied in Japan for more than a decade and earned a PhD in Fine Arts from the Tokyo University of the Arts. He has won the Hakujitsu-kai Exhibition Hakujitsu Award from Japan, the Modern Asian Art Exhibition Seibo Kitamura Award and other domestic and international art awards, and has held several solo exhibitions in Japan. Chen Han is concerned about the potential for taxtile expression of art in materials based on oriental esthetics and has developed the study and teaching of “orientalism” in sculpture, exploring the poetic expression of oriental material in contemporary art.

 

The Milky Way

Mixed media

Variable size

2022


The work uses fiber to weave a gauze drapery to create a galactic image that flies downwards. The Milky Way prevents Cowherd and Weaver Girl from meeting physically, but cannot stop the love narrative from spreading through the stars. The work attempts to show the image of the “Milky Way” weaved by the loom as the drapery continues to expand. Under the profound artistic conception of the verses “…Where brimful, brimful waves appear, they gaze but can’t lay bare their heart…”, the feelings are constantly weaved in the work of Weaver Girl, the ancient poem is disassembled and reconstructed, inadvertently incorporated into the torrent of the Milky Way, scattered among layers of the gauze drapery. The interplay between the strokes of script and characters forms an abstract picture with complex layers and deep tranquility. The characters are the notes that precipitate history and humanities as well as the solidifying of emotion beyond time and space. Maybe the essence of life is the travel of “phenomena” and “symbols” to and from “cache” and “release” which reveals infinite vitality and poetry.

The Milky Way

Mixed media

Variable size

2022


The work uses fiber to weave a gauze drapery to create a galactic image that flies downwards. The Milky Way prevents Cowherd and Weaver Girl from meeting physically, but cannot stop the love narrative from spreading through the stars. The work attempts to show the image of the “Milky Way” weaved by the loom as the drapery continues to expand. Under the profound artistic conception of the verses “…Where brimful, brimful waves appear, they gaze but can’t lay bare their heart…”, the feelings are constantly weaved in the work of Weaver Girl, the ancient poem is disassembled and reconstructed, inadvertently incorporated into the torrent of the Milky Way, scattered among layers of the gauze drapery. The interplay between the strokes of script and characters forms an abstract picture with complex layers and deep tranquility. The characters are the notes that precipitate history and humanities as well as the solidifying of emotion beyond time and space. Maybe the essence of life is the travel of “phenomena” and “symbols” to and from “cache” and “release” which reveals infinite vitality and poetry.

The Milky Way

Mixed media

Variable size

2022


The work uses fiber to weave a gauze drapery to create a galactic image that flies downwards. The Milky Way prevents Cowherd and Weaver Girl from meeting physically, but cannot stop the love narrative from spreading through the stars. The work attempts to show the image of the “Milky Way” weaved by the loom as the drapery continues to expand. Under the profound artistic conception of the verses “…Where brimful, brimful waves appear, they gaze but can’t lay bare their heart…”, the feelings are constantly weaved in the work of Weaver Girl, the ancient poem is disassembled and reconstructed, inadvertently incorporated into the torrent of the Milky Way, scattered among layers of the gauze drapery. The interplay between the strokes of script and characters forms an abstract picture with complex layers and deep tranquility. The characters are the notes that precipitate history and humanities as well as the solidifying of emotion beyond time and space. Maybe the essence of life is the travel of “phenomena” and “symbols” to and from “cache” and “release” which reveals infinite vitality and poetry.

X