3 Rules of the jean-charles kien artwork :

◊ Every productions are based on the isometric grid.

◊ Every productions are based on black and White and 19 shades of grey.

◊ Every productions are based on a structure where every units are a multiple of the number 5.

Since he graduated in architecture and design, study of transversality between arts and design has been the center of Jean-Charles kien questionings as he kept practicing art over the years.

Evolution of the status of objects, position of the artist with regards to his work or even common grounds and differences between products and work of art are recurring topics of his work.

His artistic proposals are evolving around concepts that are extremely normalized. The aim is to find balance and harmony through a preset creation system where a very precise and strict SOW is applied to all of his work, defining rules to be used for the structure, proportions or even colors. In addition to these three fundamentals more rules are added specifically to each piece of work.

The aesthetics stemming from this dogma are minimalist and geometric, all black and white and shades of grey and the paintings, installations or sculpture coming out of it require rigor and precision.

www.art-jck.com project is built around different concept.

The starting point of this order is the city of Shanghai and how I feel the evolutions of the urban development of this entity during my time in China.

Series are really important in my work, and according to the curator, the ideas were to connect this logic of production to the concept of a time line, to illustrate this feeling of evolution.

The main idea is to materialize this urban complexity, who is similar in my mind to a rhizome or a web structure, with my usual specifications of creation.

To identify the limit between chaos and complexity, between a random and a logic, we need to analyze this work and the way who is built.

Step by step, catching some link, some clues, the main concept is to understand what rules and which logic is used to create this impression of chaos.