Decheng Cui
Decheng Cui was born in Qingdao, China, in 1990. During his undergraduate education in China he majored in oil painting and completed a practice producing representational work. After he came to the School of Art Institute of Chicago to begin his Master’s degree in the painting department, his work began to focus on content rather than language, becoming a conceptual artist. Although he has rich painting experience, his creation is never limited to painting. Depending on what he wants to express, his work covers painting, printmaking, sculpture, animation, sound, and more.
His recent works have a very grand philosophical proposition, the Metaphysics series. This series is divided into four chapters, namely, Sensibility & Rationality, Critique of Sensibility, Critique of Pure Reason, and Human’s Limitation. Works from the first two chapters have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in galleries around the world and will be featured at this year’s ART Miami fair. What is contained in this is a review of human history, the methods and possibilities of people’s cognition of the world, the impact on the present and the hidden dangers in the future.
Cui Decheng sees his works as fragments of his soul, as he said. “The purpose of my work is to use it to fight fear from death. Since the demise of the flesh is inevitable, then I can only find ways to plant the fragments of my soul among human civilizations, to root it to console myself. Therefore, it is unimportant to me that what kind of art language I use, and it play a whole key role in my work that what kind of my concept, my soul, in it.”
Available for:
Traditional painting, Digital painting, Animation
