Contemporary Art "middle Way.

Chen Zhen, residing in France, is one of the most active installationartist in nineties of the last century.From the mid-eighties of lastcentury, he studied in France and made research about Westerncontemporary art for a long time. Since then he gradually gave up beforeleaving easel painting and begun using installation art form of artisticcreation.Long-term exotic life not only given Chen Zhen another concernof the perspective of traditional Chinese culture, but also enabled himto observe clearly of the kernel of Western culture.Early artistic ofChen Zhen, humanistic feelings and thinking of traditional Chinesephilosophy as well as the identity of the " stranger "Geopolitical, madehim think about cultural integration, self and image, globalization,urbanization and many other issues meanwhile he was through theperformance of installation art forms to express. In the process ofcreation he was gradually formed " Transexperience"-which stands onthe foundation of Chinese culture and tries to cross domain-culturallimitations. At the same time, it mixed Eastern and Western artphilosophy.Chen Zhen died of illness in2000. Because he went abroadearly and made art activities in a foreign country for a longtime,therefore, his influence in the country is far less than artistsin the same period, such as Cai Guoqiang, Xu Bing, Huang Yongping. AsChinese contemporary art " foreign legion " important " pioneer andinternational concern with acclaimed artists of the contemporaryart.Chen Zhen is not only using a unique way to create a large numberof works of art with Chinese elements and concepts.His thought andcreation theory which are full of Chinese intellectual also become avaluable asset of the contemporary art world.In this paper, the main lineis the time which explores the different stages of his artistic creationand art concept research on installation art of Chen Zhen combined withhis writings of his work and ideas.