each signed in Pinyin, titled in English and dated 2012 on the reverse

Canvas International Art, Amsterdam
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Netherlands, Rotterdam, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Dai Hanzhi: 5000 Artists, 2014

These works are in good condition with very minor wear in handling around the corners. Please note that they were not examined under ultraviolet light.
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The atmospheric triptych Untitled No. 12447-12 is an archetypal work by New York-based Chinese artist Shen Chen, whose visually minimalist works blends concepts of time and space, Zen philosophy, meditation and repetition. Western in aesthetic but Oriental in soul, Shen Chen’s works hover at the liminal spaces between the lineages of American colour field artists such as Mark Rothko and the Chinese tradition of painting. Born in Shanghai, and moving to Beijing after earning his MFA from the Shanghai Academy of Theater, Shen Chen was one of China’s first pioneers of Chinese abstract painting and experimental ink painting and an active member of the Art Salon, an underground art movement. He later relocated to the United States and has lived in New York since 1991, garnering acclaim with peaceful and immersive works that prompt alternate modes of perception. Critics have observed how Shen Chen’s meditative works “open new conduits of perception and thought” (Robert C. Morgan), evoking emptiness, breath, and the “void out of which all things originate” (Jonathan Goodman).