Hsiao Chin (Xiao Qin)

Why this artist matters now

The Chinese title of Hsiao Chin’s recent career retrospective in Shanghai – Dàtóng – roughly translates to The Great Unity, and is defined in the Confucian classics as a society where “there were no thieves and therefore the outer doors were not closed.” It is a fitting term for an artist who has consistently sought to open portals between long-secluded creative realms. His richly meditative abstractions evince a supple synthesis of traditional Chinese and modernist European techniques, and have won him great acclaim among critics and collectors in the East and West.

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