Chen Zequan, was born in Xiamen China 2010, is 13 years old and a middle school student. At the age of 2, he began to draw graffiti and liked color very much. Since 2016, he began to paint with oil painting and acrylic painting, and has completed nearly 600 artworks. Every time he paints, he can maintain his passion and enjoy it.
Zequan is valued for the large painting of "Hitting art". He did not sketch for his creation, and without any prior aesthetic design, but a carrier of human movement dominated by his heart. He completes the paintings through a series of improvised actions. Painting is no longer to express emotion through image or form, but becomes a direct record of the artist's emotion. What the artist presents to visitors on the canvas is not only a painting, but also the action process. The canvas becomes the place for the artist to act, and the painting becomes a record of the artist's actions and emotions.
Creating a painting effect of colorful and crisscrossing with impromptu, casual and natural actions, in this way, artist calls "Hitting art". Conduct hitting experiments on large paintings, interpreting color and rhythmic changes through repeated actions, combining the ever-changing colors with the artist's emotions for delicate communication. It forces the eyes to constantly seek and experience the emotions generated by speed, explosion, and infinite tension through the action of hitting and dragging color blocks. Artist's unique style has the characteristics of freedom, unrestrained, ignoring the objective and space delimitation.
Firstly, the artist throws colors onto a framed canvas with wild imagination, intuition, and experience, and create painting with using various tools (including sticks, brushes, wooden boards, iron pipes, and even tape measures and wheels etc, all the tools available in the studio were used) to perform actions such as hitting, brushing, rubbing, dragging, scraping, and scratching from all sides of the canvas. After repeated operation, the pattern composed of crisscross pigments left on the canvas records his direct body movement when painting. So the visitors can share the experience of creating these explosive colors.
At the same time, the entire paintings convey infinite life, and the visitors can't help but imagine the scene when painting, passionate and unrestrained. They also associate the paintings with the appearance of cities after hurricanes, with various visual effects full of speed and passion. Some of painting effects appear like the majestic momentum of thousands of horses galloping on the grassland looking down from a high sky. A more pleasant visual effect is nothing more than the morning sunlight shining through the forest on the golden fallen leaves. And some of them could make visitors immersed in the mysteries of the universe......His paintings attempt to convey an emotional memory of all things in the vast universe, with the passage of time and the construction of space, as well as the layering and cohesion of painting. In the eyes of the artist, everything has emotions and life, He is weaving the symphony of life with colors.
Nowadays, there are doubts about the existence of painting, but, from the artist action painting, we are experiencing the emergence of a kind of "Hitting art", and the vitality and infinite imagination that this kind of painting brings to us.
2022 July 20th - 27th, solo exhibition of “Flying Childhood - Chen Zequan Artwork Show” was hold in the Xiamen Art Museum.
2023 Sep. 30th - Oct. 5th solo exhibition of “Vivid Variations - The Chromatic Universe within a Young Mind” was hold in the Beijing Normal University Jingshi Art Museum.
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