FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“Forever Existence” - Dynamic Movements Series I: In Memory of 9-11
A solo exhibition, featuring a contemporary/experimental artist: Acton Chin
Dates: September 1 – October 23th, 2004
Memorial night reception: Saturday, September 11, 6 – 9 p.m.

Absolute Art Gallery
2326 Huntington Drive, San Marino, CA 91108
Tel: 626.285.8585, E-mail: <info@absoluteartgallery.net>
Web site: <www.absoluteartgallery.net>
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Wednesday by appointment
Contact: Gallery Director

Absolute Art Gallery is very pleased to announce a solo exhibition featuring a contemporary experimental artist, Acton Chin (Aka: Qin Yuan-Yue), showing recent works including figurative structure deformation of mixed media paintings and drawings. The memorial night reception will be held from 6–9 p.m. on Saturday, September 11th, 2004, and is open to the public.

Acton Chin is an artist who ceaselessly creates and courageously reforms himself.

Acton Chin has been teaching and working on oil paintings, figurative drawings, and conceptual experiment in varied media and styles for over forty years. In the early 1970’s in Beijing, China, while teaching at Chinese Central Minority University, he was inspired by film negatives and rubbings from Chinese inscriptions, and started using white outlines on special screen paper, so-called Korean hard paper, to create feminine figurative drawings and to express mysterious and harmonious atmospheres, his dream world. The style has influenced thousands of Chinese artists and expended to the US in the 1980’s, when the style was popular with collectors.

In his twenty years residence in LA (South Pasadena), Chin has been absorbing, and experimenting with life, western culture and diversities; and he has been continuously searching and exploring his spiritual process and visual inspiration.

In the mid 1990’s, he started a transformation process and created a post-modernism mixed media series named: ‘Revival’ in which he combined classical symbols, tons of lively figures from Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgment’ together with modern scientific signs, and contemporary figurative drawings. This series caught a good deal of attention, including reviews such as ‘from Mao to Levi’s: Cultural Shock’ in The Gazette in Montreal, and ‘Marriage of Rock ’n’ Roll and Religion’ in the LA Times – San Gabriel Valley Section. ‘His paintings and drawings are aggressively powerful and feature strongly modeled charcoal renderings of Michelangelesque figures, compelling the viewer’s involvement by their force. The paintings are broken into fields that suggest emotional conflicts.’ Stated David Scott, former director of the National Museum of Art in Washington. ‘He raises a question of our religions and suggests that we reexamine our belief system.’

In the late 90’s, Acton Chin started figurative structure deformation and deconstruction research and exploration in a new series titled Dynamic Movements. After September 11, 2001, his deep sense of shock could never be calmed; he spent hours and hours on his canvas and papers. In this current exhibiting series I: Forever Existence, in memory of 9-11, he claims that: "life is power, life is wisdom, life is origin, and life is immortal."

Acton Chin has been exhibiting his paintings, prints, drawings, and installations internationally in museums and galleries in China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Sweden, Switzerland, West Africa, Canada, and the United States. His works are in the public and private collections of numerous countries.

Absolute Art Gallery cordially invites all families, friends and artists to join our memorial night reception. Map & Directions:

For more information about Absolute Art Gallery and exhibitions, including images, please contact: Gallery Director at 626.285.8585 or info@absoluteartgallery.net