EMMANUEL CHANTEBOUT
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China Street Life
Taijichuan
Large Installation
Tibet
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| French painter Emmanuel Chantebout’s cityscapes depict contemporary China from the perspective of the quiet observer. The artist moved to Beijing in 2003 and, as a non-Chinese speaker, used his paintings to communicate the rapid physical growth and resulting social dynamics he witnessed. “I attempt to give a narrative to the social situation I live in,” says Chantebout. (From A glimpse on Emmanuel Chantebout’s work, Lu Muyi, May 2006, www.perif/net)
In Building Site (2007), low grey walls separate tall red cranes and building sites from isolated groups of people. The people appear cut and pasted like a collage onto the white foreground space. Lu Muyi writes of the artist’s point of view being ‘definitively the one of a hidden witness… Who reveals a bustling people only dedicated to their own activities and living in an absolute ignorance of what is going on around them. They are active and yet lost in their surrounds, which he depicts as an empty, deaf and comforting white space.” Muyi suggests this state of inner focus is a way of dealing with drastic environmental changes as China develops at an overwhelming speed. | |||
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