Chan Ky-Yut... Visible Voices at the Cernuschi Museum until December 30th, 2007

The Cernuschi Museum goes back to its tradition of openness to contemporary paintings and present the work of the Sino-Canadian painter Chan Ky-Yut(Chen Jieyi), born in Canton in 1940 and based in Canada since the 1970's.

In the fusion of gesture and spirit, Shan Ky-Yut creates a new pictorial form, and performs a dazzling symbiosis between traditional Chinese painting and current contemporary painting. With ink, color and paper, he renew a significant relationship with his origins, and, in the wake of past years in the West, he deepens the color. His work as a creator, nor figurative, not abstract, painted a nameless universe, fleeting, and only a few formal benchmarks reveal the origin proper to Chinese aesthetics.
One of the original slopes of Chan Ky-Yut's labor emanates from his collaboration with poets and writers, like Paul Eluard, Claire and Yvan Goll, Michel Butor, Andrée Chédid, Jean Simeon, Lorand Gaspar, Adonis, Salah Stétié and Francois Cheng Arrabal for France, as well as many writers of international fame. As a poet himself, the singularity of his books and artist manuscripts, animated by a more intimate production, revives the poetry, painting and calligraphy trilogy, emblematic of pictorial creation from ancient China.

From childhood Shan Ky-Yut learn calligraphy with his grandfather and it begins in late adolescence studying classical Chinese. In this vein, he learns the ways of Tao, Confucius and Buddha.

Chan Ky-Yut... Voix visibles (Visible Voices)
From September 20 to December 30, 2007.

Musée Cernuschi, musée des arts de l’Asie de la Ville de Paris
www.cernuschi.paris.fr
7 avenue Vélasquez
75008 Paris
Tel : 01.53.96.21.50

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