Mah Chen

Mahchen is a Korean artist born in 1981 who lives and works in Paris, France. Artist Mahchen's artistic inspiration begins with the exploration of self-reflection and enlightenment. The artist longs to capture the color changes through the observation of nature and the physical elements that all nature conveys.

He wants to realize his inner world through meditation and visualizes the captured colors, starting with primary beginning which exposed on edges as a frame. It reflects the foundation and cornerstone of the self development in a meditation process as it matures through countless layers until the final layer of surface is revealed. When the final stage of mature, refined colors is reached, the artist interacts with the colors and derives the final layer of surface as inspired. He expresses longing for a utopia of freedom and abundance in nature. Endless exploration and desire for true freedom encounter with humble vision of nature. Like a child, he doodles matrix style symbols and playfulness of bunny faces as if providing a lot of messages of texts However they have no meanings at all. This signifies the modern life we all live in.

The artist's passion to coexist in the beauty and depth of meaning of life through the journey of exploring human freedom and maturity is a great motivation behind his work process. It is also an effort to express the dignity of human personality and characteristics of the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure reflected in the mature stage. The inspiration of the artist's self exploration is reflected in various colors and contexts. The artist, who enjoys the agony and happiness of his life as an artist, is presenting his works in various countries in Europe, the Americas and Asia through various exhibition activities. His works, created by his own self-exploration, are under a constant focus on his self development to form a lyrical abstraction.