Emerging Artist Yanran Chen’s Solo Exhibition Debuts at Tsutaya Bookstore in Tokyo
MAY 3, 2024
After the successful conclusion of the global trend event 2024 ComplexCon Hong Kong, Chinese emerging artist Yanran Chen’s solo exhibition at Tsutaya Bookstore in Daikanyama, Tokyo, has also ended successfully. The exhibition presented Chen’s latest original works, prints, and sculptures, showcasing the self-expression of Generation Z under the impact of information explosion and technological currents from both Eastern and Western aesthetics, achieving great success.
Influenced by her family environment, Yanran Chen has had a strong interest in art since childhood. Works by Japanese manga artists, such as Kazuo Umezu, Shintaro Kago, Suehiro Maruo, and anime director Masaaki Yuasa, accompanied her growth. At the age of 16, she studied in Japan and gained much inspiration from her exchanges and studies in Tokyo.
Her interest in Japanese art to some extent led to her connection with Tsutaya Bookstore in Daikanyama, Tokyo. Located in the Daikanyama area of Tokyo, Tsutaya Bookstore creates a composite cultural living space to the standard of landmark art museums and is renowned globally as a source of art and culture. Chen Yanran’s solo exhibition received strong support from Tsutaya Bookstore, attracting a large number of art enthusiasts and further expanding the global visibility of Chen Yanran’s personal brand.
Yanran Chen’s solo exhibition fully embodies the artist’s personal style. Her greatest feature is the replication of self-dreams in her artwork, integrating the bizarre fantasies of dreams into reality, creating works full of stories and resonance. At the same time, her works also reflect the influence of Western fantasy and surrealistic painting expression, presenting three-dimensional works from a novel and contemporary perspective. From sketches, illustrations to sculptures, Yanran Chen continuously explores the secrets of consciousness and presents them in a tangible way, amplifying the sensory potential of artistic works.
One of the new sculptural works featured in the exhibition, “Fantasy Plastic Bag”, combines plastic bags, potato chip bags, and facial features to create a bizarre and unique sculpture. The spatial sense inside the sculpture creates a space full of imagination, and the highly modernist artistic expression is reminiscent of Kafka’s “The Castle”. The creation inspiration for “Nightmare Robot” comes from a generation’s childhood memory - the square-headed television. Are our bodies imprisoned by past memories? Is the world we perceive controlled by artificial intelligence? Can we, as we wish, achieve further liberation in the era of artificial intelligence with our visible and touchable bodies?
In addition to three-dimensional sculpture works, the painting “Me and My Friend” presents an explosive imagination of wasteland aesthetics in a surrealist manner. The girls in her paintings traverse the wasteland world with a strong sense of instability, observing the world. The new work, “Girl and Snail”, inherits her focus on embodied perception, interpreting human introspection.
As of now, Yanran Chen has appeared in art exhibitions in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Budapest, and other international cities. After this exhibition, Yanran Chen and her team will continue to create and participate in more international exhibitions. Within the year, Yanran Chen will study at the Rhode Island School of Design in the United States, and we look forward to her extraordinary performance in the world’s art halls.
Emerging Artist
Yanran Chen’s
Solo Exhibition
Debuts at Tsutaya
Bookstore in Tokyo
MAY 3, 2024
After the successful conclusion of the global trend event 2024 ComplexCon Hong Kong, Chinese emerging artist Yanran Chen’s solo exhibition at Tsutaya Bookstore in Daikanyama, Tokyo, has also ended successfully. The exhibition presented Chen’s latest original works, prints, and sculptures, showcasing the self-expression of Generation Z under the impact of information explosion and technological currents from both Eastern and Western aesthetics, achieving great success.
Influenced by her family environment, Yanran Chen has had a strong interest in art since childhood. Works by Japanese manga artists, such as Kazuo Umezu, Shintaro Kago, Suehiro Maruo, and anime director Masaaki Yuasa, accompanied her growth. At the age of 16, she studied in Japan and gained much inspiration from her exchanges and studies in Tokyo.
Her interest in Japanese art to some extent led to her connection with Tsutaya Bookstore in Daikanyama, Tokyo. Located in the Daikanyama area of Tokyo, Tsutaya Bookstore creates a composite cultural living space to the standard of landmark art museums and is renowned globally as a source of art and culture. Chen Yanran’s solo exhibition received strong support from Tsutaya Bookstore, attracting a large number of art enthusiasts and further expanding the global visibility of Chen Yanran’s personal brand.
Yanran Chen’s solo exhibition fully embodies the artist’s personal style. Her greatest feature is the replication of self-dreams in her artwork, integrating the bizarre fantasies of dreams into reality, creating works full of stories and resonance. At the same time, her works also reflect the influence of Western fantasy and surrealistic painting expression, presenting three-dimensional works from a novel and contemporary perspective. From sketches, illustrations to sculptures, Yanran Chen continuously explores the secrets of consciousness and presents them in a tangible way, amplifying the sensory potential of artistic works.
One of the new sculptural works featured in the exhibition, “Fantasy Plastic Bag”, combines plastic bags, potato chip bags, and facial features to create a bizarre and unique sculpture. The spatial sense inside the sculpture creates a space full of imagination, and the highly modernist artistic expression is reminiscent of Kafka’s “The Castle”. The creation inspiration for “Nightmare Robot” comes from a generation’s childhood memory - the square-headed television. Are our bodies imprisoned by past memories? Is the world we perceive controlled by artificial intelligence? Can we, as we wish, achieve further liberation in the era of artificial intelligence with our visible and touchable bodies?
In addition to three-dimensional sculpture works, the painting “Me and My Friend” presents an explosive imagination of wasteland aesthetics in a surrealist manner. The girls in her paintings traverse the wasteland world with a strong sense of instability, observing the world. The new work, “Girl and Snail”, inherits her focus on embodied perception, interpreting human introspection.
As of now, Yanran Chen has appeared in art exhibitions in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Budapest, and other international cities. After this exhibition, Yanran Chen and her team will continue to create and participate in more international exhibitions. Within the year, Yanran Chen will study at the Rhode Island School of Design in the United States, and we look forward to her extraordinary performance in the world’s art halls.