Teh-Chun Chu (b. 1920)

"We can 'read' his gestures with the brush as mountains or clouds, as waves, as the cosmic swirl of Chaos at the beginning of the world,- visionary forms, forever appearing and dissolving before our eyes. Like the dragons in a Chan painting by the Song Dynasty master Chen Rong, Chu's images occupy some mysterious realm between form and the formless, the temporal and the eternal"
Michael Sullivan

In Rivages Apaises (Lot 3350), 1997, Chu Teh-Chun's extensive use of layered, flowing colour blocks and messy, interspersing calligraphic lines convey the inner conflict within the space of the artist's mind.
The artist plays with basic architectural and compositional elements such as geometrical forms, lines and colours to construct an otherworldly, purely aesthetic universe. Once you enter into the threshold of this universe, bright colours immediately envelop you. A spectrum of colours pulse, play and push off each other, momentarily "clashing" and "exploding", almost as if they were coalescing to form a nebulae in the depths of space. The nebula spreads out on a grand scale, leaving behind visual traces of life and birth. Chu's grand vision here places us in a universe where the transitory visual stimuli reach the viewer to speak of the countless light years of distance and indistinct cycles of rebirth.