Fondation CHU Teh-Chun

l’art en plus advised the CHU Teh-Chun Foundation in 2023 and 2024 on the occasion of the artist’s retrospective at the Fondazione Cini during the Venice Biennale.

The Foundation is the result of a family initiative to perpetuate Chu Teh-Chun’s work and pass it on to future generations. With an extensive archive of the artist’s life and work dating back to his arrival in 1955, its mission is to organize international events, forge partnerships with institutions and collectors, and support the young art scene.

In 2024, the Foundation produced an ambitious retrospective at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore to coincide with the Venice Biennale. Curated by Matthieu Poirier and in partnership with the Fondazione Cini, this is the most important exhibition devoted in recent years to the master of gestural abstraction, whose work links the paintings of Hans Hartung, Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler. The aim of the exhibition, and of the monograph published in parallel by Gallimard, is to gain a better understanding of the artist’s work, to put it into perspective in order to identify the singularity of his abstraction, and to take the measure of his contribution to the revival of painting in the age of color-field abstraction.

l’art en plus assisted the CHU Teh-Chun Foundation with its communication strategy and media relations campaign in France and abroad, as well as public relations, visibility development and outreach for the exhibition, a highlight of the 60th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art.