Art Triumph Gallery will launch an artist group exhibition "Beyond the Verge" in the 798 Art District from November 21, 2020 to January 3, 2021. The exhibition presents 22 works by ten artists. The artist group exhibition "Beyond the Verge" is also one of the series of exhibitions in the 2020 Beijing 798 Art Festival.

This article will focus on the work of the participating artist Chen Ke.




Chen Ke

After finishing her studies at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 2005, Chen Ke came to Beijing and began her career as an artist. In her early works, she often portrayed a cute and lonely girl in a surreal time and space, with a slightly non-human firework posture, or against the upside-down reality, or expressing her feelings for the passing of time. Since 2011, Chen Ke's works based on women such as Frida and Monroe opened up her new painting themes, and more actively absorbed the nutrients from Eastern and Western classical paintings, forming a gradually mature painting appearance. In 2017, she began to create a series of works related to her father's true emotions, projecting her own life experience and understanding into the works more directly.



Introduction

This work is one of the 2015 exhibition "Dense Forest". "If you don't know the darkness, it's hard to be called a wise man"-the image of "dense forest" represents the artist's mental anxiety and at the same time firm self-selection. Since his debut, Chen Ke has always used his inner activities as the subject and painted in an imaginary way. This time, she no longer uses her own emotions to mobilize the audience’s joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, but tries to work with everyone. Chen Ke, who is "lonely" in the dense forest, finds the "lonely" you and me, gets rid of them together, and gives up "disappointment" ", passing through this dark dense forest.

The same series of works "Rain on a Certain Month" will be auctioned at Christie's in Hong Kong on December 3, with an estimated price of HKD 900,000-1,800,000.

These three works were first exhibited in Chen Ke's solo exhibition "Chatting with Dad is a serious matter" at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai at the end of 2018. The exhibition presents Chen Ke's own life track and life logic. Through dialogue with her father, investigation of past events, and collection and re-creation of old objects, she presents a series of comprehensive material paintings and installations to explore themes such as youth, personality, family and aging, and reproduce her closeness to a living body. Observation from distance and awareness of this and that.

Various materials of daily life have entered her creations. Mirrors, coasters and chests of drawers have all been transformed into containers of memory, understanding and emotion one after another in her creation. There is a kind of steadfastness and kindness in the works, the bits and pieces of life and memories are deposited into the patterns on the canvas, the lights and the fabrics in the installation.