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Current
Exhibition:
April 29th – June 19th 2010 |
Franklin Chow
Recent works, paintings and videos
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Franklin Chow
Untitled, 2010
Chinese ink and oil on canvas, 40 x 200 cm |
dossier de presse Franklin Chow |
Franklin Chow (b. 1946, Shanghai/Geneva),
trained at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, and immersed in his Chinese heritage,
hones an approach that reveals multiple influences drawn from fine art, graphic communications,
literary texts and filmic representations.
The exhibition features a selection of mixed media works that testify to the exhilarating and complex
re-locations, re-collections and journeys of the artist in his creative development. Taken together,
they disclose the shaping of an artistic voice that speaks of cultural and personal spaces that cannot
be easily polarised as art of the East or West.
Formé à La Grande Chaumière de Paris et profondément imprégné par son héritage chinois,
Franklin Chow (Shangai, 1946) a développé un art où se rejoignent subtilement peinture
traditionnelle chinoise et art contemporain occidental. S'y révèlent aussi les traces de multiples
influences: beaux-arts, art de la caligraphie, communication visuelle, textes littéraires et univers cinématographique. Il utilise une technique mixte, mélangeant encre de chine et huile pour des
peintures aux matières délicates, aux tonalités sourdes et aux tons délibérément limités (noir, gris, blanc). |
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Franklin Chow
Untitled (diptyque), 2009
Chinese ink and oil on canvas, 200 x 360 cm |
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Franklin Chow
Untitled (Tondo), 2008
Chinese ink and oil on canvas, Ø 100 cm |

Franklin Chow
Untitled, 2008
Chinese ink and oil on canvas, 100 x 110 cm |
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Franklin Chow
Untitled (triptyque), 2009
Chinese ink and oil on canvas, 180 x 90 cm |

Franklin Chow
Untitled (Tondo), 2009
Chinese ink and oil on canvas, Ø 150 cm |
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Franklin Chow
Untitled (diptyque), 2009
Chinese ink and oil on canvas, Ø 100 cm & Ø 150 cm |

Franklin Chow
Untitled (Tondo), 2009
Chinese ink and oil on canvas, Ø 80 cm |
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Franklin Chow
Untitled, 2010
Chinese ink and oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm |

Franklin Chow
Untitled (diptyque), 2010
Chinese ink and oil on canvas, 80 x 180 cm |
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Franklin Chow
Untitled, 2010
Chinese ink and oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm |

Franklin Chow
Untitled, 2010
Chinese ink and oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm |
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Franklin Chow
Untitled, 2010
Chinese ink and oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm |

Franklin Chow
Untitled (Tondo), 2010
Chinese ink and oil on canvas, Ø 100 cm |
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