| Dates: | born 1956
| | Biography: | (artist biography as of 2006)
Born 1956, Foshan, Guangdong
Province, PR China. Lives and works in
Paris, France and Heidelberg, Germany
Selected solo exhibitions
Tomorrow Cloudy Sky, 2006, HanArtTZ
Gallery, Hong Kong
Memorandums, 2005, Galerie Jeanne
Bucher, Paris, France
Hei Ji Sheng Xiang, 2005, Shenzhen
Painting Institute, Shenzhen, PR China
Who Occupies the Space?.2005, Isola
d'arte. Milan, Italy
Lookchat, 2003, Centre A, Vancouver,
Canada
For Emily, 2003, 4A Gallery, Sydney,
Australia
Der längste Tag, 2002, Kunstverein
Nürtingen, Nürtingen, Germany
French May, 2001 Hong Kong
University Museum, Hong Kong
Enlightened Blackness, 2001 Alice King
Gallery, Hong Kong
Double View, 2001, Galerie Jeanne
Bucher, Paris, France
100 Layers of Ink, 2001, Cherng Piing
Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Institut Français, 2001, Institut Français,
Frankfurt, Germany
You - Double View, 2000, Project Room,
ARCO 2000, Madrid, Spain
Selected group exhibitions
Laboratoires pour un avenir incertain, La
force de I'art, 2006, Grand Palais, Paris.
France
Micro-Macro Politics. 2006, Macao Art
Museum, Macao
Infiltration - Idylls and Visions,
2006, Guangdong Museum of Art,
Guangzhou, PR China
Taste: 5th Shenzhen International Ink
Painting Biennial, 2006. Shenzhen, PR China
Beyond: Second Guangzhou Triennial,
2005, Guangzhou PR China
Layered Landscapes: Yan Lei and Yang
Jiechang, 2005, Stanford Art Gallery,
Stanford, USA
Biennial of Emergency, 2005, Palais de
Tokyo, Paris, France/ Grozny, Chechen
Republic
Experimental Ink, 2005, Museum of the
University of Science, Taipei and
Taiohung, Taiwan
Stop Over Hong Kong, 2004, HanArtTZ
Gallery, Hong Kong
Le moine et le démon, 2004, Musee d'art
contemporain de Lyon, Lyons, France
A I'est du sud de I'ouest, 2004, Villa
Arson/Credac Sete, France
GAP, 2004, Heidelberger Kunstverein,
Heidelberg, Germany
Odyssey(s), 2004, Shanghai Gallery of
Art, Shanghai, PR China
All Under Heaven, 2004, Muhka,
Antwerp, Belgium
Zone of Urgency, 2003, Venice Biennale,
Venice, Italy
Shenzhen Ink Painting Biennial, 2003,
Shenzhen Painting Institute, Shenzhen,
PR China
The Fifth System, 2003, 5th International
Shenzhen Sculpture Exhibition, Shenzhen, PR
China
Guangzhou Triennale, 2002 Guangzhou,
PR China
Gwangju Biennial, 2002, Gwangju, South
Korea
First Chengdu Biennial, 2002, Chengdu,
PR China
China: 20 Years of Ink Experiment,
2001, Guangdong Museum of Art. Guangdong,
China
Centre de Refuge, 2001, Centre
International de Poésie, Marseilles, France
Paris pour Escale. 2000, Musée d'art
moderne de la ville de Paris, Pans,
France
A Portrait, 2000, Gallery agnès b., New
York, USA
| | | Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2006 |
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| | Description: | In his installations as well as his
subversive conceptual ink painting and
calligraphy, Yang Jiechang challenges
the grand narratives embedded in the
arts and everyday life. Coming out of the
Chinese Cultural Revolution and
relocated to Paris following the
Tiananmen Square protests, Yang's
works reflect his position at the 'third
space' in global contemporary culture,
often poignantly picking up on the effects
of mainstream propaganda, be that
under communist regimes or in the
current discourses of terrorism and war.
He often recycles images that have been
manipulated into cliche by constant
public exposure, such as that of the
people's hero, or of 9/11, and turns them
upside down to reveal a forgotten reality.
Yet his reality is grey rather than black
and white; his world is dirty with
innumerable nuances, instead of clean
and clear-cut. His philosophy is Taoist,
as his early training has made him.
Yang usually responds to the context
and location of an exhibition, conceiving
the space as organic and its elements
as dynamic, in an approach very similar
to the way in which Chinese ink
paintings deploy their space, ruled by a
dialectics of reality and unreality,
fullness and emptiness. However, his
work is not purely formal, but also
deeply political.
Manray Hsu
| | Description Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 2006 | | Type: | person |
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