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Gallery 55 is pleased to announce that Chen Sixin’s debut individual exhibition "A Hard Day’s Night" will open on the 6th of August and run through the 28th.

Chen Sixin’s new creations follow the characters of his past cartoon style, and put these characters in the imaginary scene. However, compared with his previous works, he has shifted his attention from more personal symbols to more realistic situation thinking. The works have a stronger sense of story or fairy tale, so he pays more attention to the sticky feeling brought by brush strokes.

In his works, cars appear quite frequently, which is derived from his sense of crisis for this most common means of transportation in the city. For example, although it is convenient in time when it is working normally, it is the biggest threat to life and cumbersome in time when accidents happen. This contradictory quality is, at a deeper level, his distrust of the state of the man operating from the tin box.

Then his personification of flies and mosquitoes, similar to the reverse processing of kafka’s metamorphosis, he tries to imagine how they live like human beings, but retain their own characteristics. He doesn’t add on the characteristics of the people in their facial features of the face, they reveal a lack of expression, in the face of the problems always seems to be very dull.

The exhibition’s title, "A Hard Day’s Night," comes from the Beatles’ third album, "A Hard Day’s Night" . The expression in the exhibition is a parody of the album cover.

Chen Sixin was born in China in 1995. He graduated from Guangdong University of Technology with a B.A. in 2017 and Maryland Institute of Art with a M.A. in 2021. Currently, he lives and works in Guangzhou, China.