Category: Artwork Stories

We definitely love the way your craft production combines rigorous geometry with freedom of composition, summing up into a tactile concreteness the ideas: what about your choice of materials: what drew you to them? In particular, do you start work with a concept or does the idea come later?

My choice of materials depends on the message I want to pass on. There are lots of materials at our disposal and it's important to be accurate, As important to be wild.

My attraction comes from a vision. I visualize what I want but don't go into details, feel like painting acrylic, feel like painting on a big canvas, I feel like I want to paint a half realistic half abstract painting. From there I start if I want a painting hotter I tend to choose oil paints, if something more modern or I catharsis of the moment, I will use watercolors, I could get cracking as soon as possible, and then I begin the journey.

Not many cases in which I began with abstract then I got to realistic painting. The concept is important, but I never know where it will take me, I took inspiration in my recent paintings from photographs and channeled them to my zone, my art.

There were paintings I painted with spices, coffee, sand, every material gives its energy and it is very important to be accurate, what's nice here is that no one can say or dictate to you what accurate for you. For example, there are paintings of three layers and 15, every painting and my "eagle" with it, sometimes I humanize my paintings in their demand towards how to paint them.

One of the hallmarks of your work is the capability to create a direct involvement with the viewers, who are urged to evolve from a condition of mere spectatorship. Do you consider the issue of audience reception as being a crucial component of your decision-making process, in terms of what type of language is used in a particular context?

It is very important for me to be communicative, to some extent understandable. Also it's very important for me to remain mysterious. I think an artist should have freedom in his area, to create from the heart and stomach, less from the head.

It's one thing to consult and listen to criticism and opinions, but an entirely different thing where the artwork takes you, what she whispers to you and if she's ready. There is a huge dialogue in any artwork I do, my interest is to keep in perspective the opinions compared to what I really want to transfer, and how much freedom I give to the art in me.

I believe that this journey will have lots of opinions and reviews but it is part of the journey. It is important for me to stay open, to experience, to hear, try and make mistakes! This is quite different than to follow what people say, otherwise the freedom I have to create art, has no weight.

I would not want to be an artist that paints only known figures in pop art style, it is important for me to experiment and for that, I need people to give opinions. I respect my art, that is why I show it, but there's an area that is all mine and it's important for me to keep to myself even more.

Thanks a lot for your time and for sharing your thoughts, Chen. Finally, would you like to tell us readers something about your future projects? How do you see your work evolving?

My work is always in progress, just like in life. Through learning, through new experiences, new countries and interesting people, life goes on and we all grow with them. I'm interested in opening myself for more streams and lines. As long as I call myself an artist, it will always be like that.

Being an artist is not just creation, it's something that is always around, there's no break, thinking divergences always gives more solutions, flexible thinking and creativity, whether it's painting, Sculpture, cooking, dancing, conversation, everywhere.

As long as I continue the journey in and out, spiritual search for balance I believe I would find more directions. I hope to always be able to surprise or excite with my artwork, to touch and even affect.

I started painting at a very late age, after many years of pushing art aside. From computer programmer I became a graphic designer and today my art is part of everyday life. Every day is important for me to create and continue to my journey.