The Marconi Foundation is pleased to presente an exhibition dedicated to the works on paper by Chinese artist Hsiao Chin: on the first floor his most recent works will be shown, while on the second his early ones from the Sixties.
Hsiao Chin's artistic career has been a continuous spiritual search, since his training in Taipei where, thanks to his teacher, he learned to balance heart, mind, hands and eyes and to combine colours.
The artist was born in Shangai in 1935 and in 1959 he moved to Milan, at the time the centre of the artistic avantgarde, where he met, among others, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and their innovative ideas.
Hsiao Chin does not forget the Taoist teaching despite his relationship with the Western culture.
Philosophical Taoism tries to achieve harmony between sky, earth and the human being.
Connected to Tao is the idea of the Yin and the Yang, opposite and complementary at the same time.
“I wanted to purposely think back to Taoism, because the Western world was too variegated. This is why I decided to make a personal journey capable of building up cultural and experience-related baggage of action and thought. I analysed Taoism through numerous readings, to achieve a form of painting which was mine alone”. (Hsiao Chin)
On the second floor there will be gouaches and watercolours on rice paper made by Hsiao in the early Sixties with clear references to those philosophical principles: geometrical figures with contrasting colours, alternate volumes and empty spaces, white surfaces with curvy lines, peculiar in those years, constantly searching for balance. Circles, squares, triangles…The forms used by the artists are taken from symbology. So the circle stands for perfection, the triangle represents the spiritual ascension, the square is a raw material in evolution.