朱德群 (1920-2014)
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朱德群 (1920-2014)

意想之外

已结束2020年7月11日

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朱德群
朱德群 (1920-2014)
意想之外
油彩 画布
73 x 90 cm. (28 3/4 x 35 3/8 in.)
1993年作
款识:朱德群 Chu The-Chun. 93. (右下);L’Imprév 1993 CHU TEH-CHUN 朱德群 (画背)

佳士得 香港 2005年5月29日 编号311
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“Blue is the most spirited colour in nature, it is filled with poetic subtlety as well as all-encompassing amiability, blue belongs to all life, and the earliest life was born from blue – in the ancient oceans.” – Chu Teh-Chun

In 1990, Chu Teh-Chun moved to a large studio in Vitry-sur-Seine, just outside of Paris. This high-ceiling studio surrounded by large windows exploited natural day light as main source of lighting, and thus encouraged him to further explore and perfect his artistic language through colour and lighting. In order to capture such fast-changing and fluid light, Chu created a translucent paint that rendered an ethereal brushstroke, particularly tangible in L'Imprévu (The Unexpected). Here, a multitude of strokes emerge from a central core, with different pace, intensity and thickness.

Such suggestion of movement and light through colour and abstraction can be traced by to his discovery of Nicolas de Staël in1956. Chu then realised he could express the essence of his inner vision through abstract blocks of colour, which eventually led him to fully transition to abstraction.

The early 1990s were marked by difficult times, in particular the Gulf War, which deeply affected the painter. His work from this period varies from darkness to brightness, and L'Imprévu (The Unexpected) can be interpreted as a message of hope, where brightness, clarity and balance suddenly push darkness away and take over the composition to create a powerful bursting of energy and controlled tension.