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Painting (MA)

Kaiyan Chu

 Kaiyan Chu(b.1996, China) is living and working in Ningbo, China. He received BA from Minzu University of China (Beijing) in 2018 and will graduate from RCA in London with an MA degree in 2020.  

Experience:

 ‘snapshot’ (Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, 2020） 

‘Art Works’ (Canadian National Academy of Arts & One Art Gallery, Online, 2020) 

Shortlisted for ‘Youth Art 100’ project in 2019 (Guardian Art Center, Beijing, 2019) 

‘Backward Reading’（508Gallery, London, 2019） 

Ten Thousand Green Art Fair（Block Sixteen Innovation Garden, Shenzhen, 2019）  

Contact

ku.ca.acr.krowten@uhc.nayiak

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Degree Details

School of Arts & Humanities

Painting (MA)

My works are currently inspired by my experience of adolescence. Adolescence is a beautiful stage for me. At that stage, I was sensitive, pure and brave. A small event could stir up ripples in my hearts, and what I did is to trace those ripples. But I don't want to hold those emotions too tightly, I filter the intense parts of those emotions, hoping to express them in an implicit, silent and static way. Painting for me is an introverted, quiet medium. I do not use it to show a kind of accuracy related to narrative, but turning to another extreme, showing a kind of fuzzy feeling. I hope that my painting can become a ground of imagination and emotion, connecting the viewers and the story in the painting, or arousing another story in the viewers’mind. The original intention of my works is to let the viewers break away from the boring and mechanical rhythm of daily life, immerse themselves in fantasy, and connect the stories.  

14 year old heartbeats

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Size:

50*50cm

roller coaster

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Size:

100*80cm

break time

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Size:

50*50cm

the first time

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Size:

50*100cm

A: What role do we play? Q: To stand our body and clothes.

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Size:

95*70cm

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