ARARIO GALLERY will participate in the West Bund Art & Design Fair 2025 in Shanghai from 13 (Thu) to 16 (Sun) November 2025. During this event, the gallery will present a selection of works by artists from China, Japan, and South Korea, exploring themes across generations, gender, memory, and landscape. Despite their diverse modes of expression, these artists share a common creative core—each seeks to explore the subtle connections between deeply personal artistic experiences and the boundle...
Alors que l’art, avec un petit « a » et un grand « $ », semble souvent se satisfaire, aux quatre coins du monde, d’une abondance de faux-semblants techno-ego-communicatifs, certains talents, formés, documentés, censés et réfléchis se plient encore, comme Xiaozhi, à la difficile et laborieuse conversation de l’artiste de 2025 avec les grands maîtres de l’art primitif, antique, classique et moderne. Exit les vidéos, la selfie-mania et le digital « à tout-va » tombés comme un cheveu bien mince dans
“Une voie perpétuelle ” group exhibition, Art week SHENYANG 2024. This group exhibition highlights talented young Chinese artists who studied or worked in France before returning to China to continue their creative practice. Bringing together more than twenty influential figures, the show will be accompanied by a documentary that offers a comprehensive portrait of how these post-70s and -80s artists have evolved in China and of the distinctive spiritual inquiries that shape their work.
Like a generalist in the era of Leonardo da Vinci or Linnaeus, he is an artist closely related to li
Xiaozhi Chen has been a professional gilder and restorer of ancient art in France for many years. Alongside this activity, she devotes herself to the creation of personal works on verre églomisé, a technique dating from Antiquity.The paintings and gilding that she creates are the fruit of her imagination, inspired by the history of art and heritage conservation techniques.Verre églomisé is the art of the opposite. It consists of successively depositing layers of different materials of mineral or
A painter and leaf gilder of Chinese origin, Xiaozhi CHEN has devoted himself to decorative arts since 2019, and particularly to the art of gold leaf decoration. The églomisé glass panels, frescoes and wall decorations that she creates are the fruit of her imagination. They are inspired by art history and heritage conservation techniques discovered in art restoration.
Xiaozhi Chen, a golden artistXiaozhi Chen, a resident of Asnières, has been a gilder for about ten years and has specialized in creating gilding under glass. On gold leaves, her favorite material, the artist draws by tracing, scraping, sanding, rubbing, and burnishing. "Gold, since the dawn of time, has been synonymous with the sacred but also with material wealth. It is a rare and precious material, both immutable and fragile, noble and despicable, real and illusory... it is this ambiguous...