Chris Huen Sin Kan “A Sunny Day of Daily Life”
I visited Chris Huen Sin Kan’s solo exhibition being held at OTA FINE ARTS, a gallery in Roppongi.
Chris Huen Sin Kan is a Hong Kong-born artist, a young painter in his twenties, born in 1991. This is his first solo exhibition in Japan.
Having studied both Western painting and ink painting at university, Chris Huen Sin Kan is known for a brushwork that shows the influence of ink painting.
Using poppy-seed oil to reduce the viscosity of oil paint, he depicts his subjects with an ink-painting-like touch.
His motifs are drawn from scenes around himself and his family, and every work features a dog.
Within the works one also notices variations in luminosity, which are said to express the flow of time and memory through color.
Only five large-scale works were on view. All of them had already sold out.
The large works, with their gentle colors, displayed in the white-cube gallery space, made for a very comfortable viewing experience.
Despite being oil paintings, they have the freshness of watercolors, and the motifs convey a sense of gentleness.
This young painter has begun to attract attention around the world — Shanghai, London, New York — and I look forward to following his work.
