Jiecang Yang - Artist Info

About Jiecang Yang

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Yang Jiechang
  • Biography

    Yang Jiechang was born in Foshan, Guangdong, and graduated from the Chinese Paintings Department at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1982. He spent time studying Taoism under master Huangtao, which has had a profound influence on his work. Yang's international recognition came with his participation in the exhibition Les Magiciens de la Terre at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and China Avant-Garde at the National Art Museum of Art, Beijing.

    Since the late 1980s Yang has been residing Europe. Yang Jiechang has gone through many distinct phases in his artworks, from the early abstract ink works "Hundred Layers of Ink" where he associated the repetitive practice of layering ink to med...

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