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Chu Sixian’s solo exhibition "The Significance of Painting is to Deceive You" opens on April the 18th, 2026, featuring his nine newly completed acrylic on canvas works. The exhibition is to end on May the 10th. This is Chu Sixian’s second solo exhibition at 55 following last year’s "Juvenile Nameless".

This exhibition presents nine newly completed acrylic on canvas works. They do not aim for a "finished image", but rather continuously deviate during the painting process.

In terms of language, this batch of works is a conscious attempt at hybridization: they retain the directness and power of graffiti while introducing a writing rhythm close to calligraphy. At the same time, they maintain the overall tension of the picture within the deviated structure of the painting. Starting from a fluid state, the works gradually reveal traces of symbols, words, and human figures, but these elements do not point to a clear narrative. Instead, they repeatedly change between generation and interruption. The works do not provide a stable viewing conclusion but allow judgment to be constantly generated in the process.

The exhibition is titled “The Significance of Painting is to Deceive You", not to deny painting itself, but to point to a viewing experience: when painting no longer conforms to established standards, how does the viewer re-establish judgment. The works focus not on the image result, but on the way painting occurs itself, and the individual differences that may still arise in this process.

Chu Sixian, was born in Luzhou, Sichuan province in 1993. He graduated from the Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, Italy with a B.A. in 2016. Then he studied for one year in the Department of Architecture at the Third University of Rome from 2017 to 2018. In 2019, he graduated from the Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, Italy with a M.F.A. Currently, he lives and works in Luzhou and Chengdu.