Detail of art work, Cocon du Vide ('Empty Cocoon') from the back. Frith Street Gallery - Chen Zen, London, United Kingdom. Archi

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Chen Zhen was born in Shanghai in 1955 and died in Paris in 2000. He is regarded as one of the leading exponents of the Chinese avant-garde and an emblematic figure in the field of international contemporary art. Combining an intense sensitivity to material and craft with the humanist rationality of a philosopher, Chen Zhen’s sculptural installations and constructions are at once physically grounded and mysteriously auratic.

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