Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. Signed and dated lower center. Hsiao Chin, an artist of Taiwanese origin who lived and worked for a long time in Milan, conceived art as a path of growth and knowledge, a spiritual journey through time and space, which goes beyond any geographical and cultural limit. In his works, the spiritual practices of the East are perfectly combined with the artistic experiments of the West, which he knew from his long stays in various countries around the world. On the one hand, his paintings can make you think of a written page in which the artist appeals to Eastern symbolism, creating a message made of subtle signs, almost ideograms, alternating with geometric shapes evoking ancestral and shared meanings (circles, squares, spirals...); on the other hand, the bold chromatic choices, full of energy, and the brush strokes, sometimes frenetic and sparkling, sometimes more liquid and calibrated, appear \"Western\". The artist has said of himself: “Today the question of whether my art is Chinese or global is no longer important to me. I try to go beyond these boundaries, with the aim of creating new works that are not conditioned by techniques and ideas.” (Hsiao Chin, 2016). The work presented here, dated 1962, belongs to the period spent by Hsiao Chin in Europe first and then in New York, in which he came into contact with all the new currents of abstraction, which determined in his painting “a new course”, in which the approach to American minimalism and hard edge painting is evident (painting with \"sharp contrasts\", or a pictorial style characterized by sharp and sharp contrasts between different areas of color, which can be simple geometric shapes or straight lines. The color of each area is predominantly homogeneous and monochrome). The work is presented in a frame. The work comes from a private collection in Milan, which documents the family\'s direct contact with the artist through a series of photographic images in his company (copies attached).
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PLATINUM Seller in Milano, Italy
