Longmen Art Gallery in Hong Kong presents a solo exhibition by Chinese artist Chuang Che
"A collection of steps that form traces". The author combines traditional Chinese heritage techniques with the abstract expressionist influences of his time spent in Europe and the USA. In early works, Chuang mainly focuses on abstraction, later he concentrates on landscape painting trying to incorporate Oriental elements into his contemporary works using abstract and figurative art as an expression of true feeling. The painter "adapts Oriental techniques of ink drawings to Western painting.
Chuang Che was born in 1934 in Beijing. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the National Taiwan Pedagogical University. In 1958, Chuang joined the Fifth Group of the Moon and actively participated in the movement of contemporary art in Taiwan. In 1966, he received a travel grant and went to study in the United States. Returned home. He worked at a university in Taiwan. In 1973 he moved to the United States. Chuang currently lives and works in New York. In 1992, he was invited to the Taipei Museum of Fine Arts for a solo exhibition. Chuang's works have been repeatedly exhibited at international exhibitions and are in collections in foreign museums and in private collections.