Chin Hsiao

Hsiao Chin was born in Shanghai in 1935 and, after his early art studies, in 1956 he participated in the founding of the Ton-Fan group, which brought together abstract painters Thanks to a scholarship established by the Spanish government, he traveled to Madrid and Barcelona, where in 1957 he had his first solo exhibition and a group exhibition dedicated to the Ton-Fan group At the end of the 1950s, he settled in Milan and in 1961, together with Antonio Calderara, he founded the “Punto” movement, which was joined by members of the international avant-garde His canvases feature fluid layers of color arranged in incorporeal, vibrant surfaces, animated by the internal energy of the chromatic fields After long stays in London, Paris, and New York, he returned to Milan in 1971 and began teaching (first at the European Institute of Design, then at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts)
In 1989, Hsiao Chin began the series From the Spring of Beijing to the Tiananmen Massacre, inspired by the dramatic events of that year, while the cycle The Great Threshold, which he began in 1990-91, arose from a reflection on life and death after the death of his daughter Samantha…

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