| Biography | Artists Statement | Artists Represented | Yang Jiechang

Born 16 Nov. 1956, Foshan, Guangdong, China, lives in Paris

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

1997

Feiberg University, Feiberg, Germany

1996

Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France

1995

Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Canada

Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland

"Art Köln", Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Koln, Germany

1994

Espace d'Art Contemporain, Le Faubourg, Strasbourg, France

Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France

1993

Rencontres dans un couloir (4), 12, rue Lacordaire, Paris

Galerie Lauter, Mannheim

1992

Turbulence Gallery, New York

Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris

1991

Frith Street Gallery, London

1990

Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1997

Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland

1996

Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany

Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland

1995

"West-östliche Kontakte" Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany

Hölderlinturm, Tübingen, Germany

FIAC, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris

1994

"Out of the Centre" Porin Tadeimuseo, Pori, Finland

1993

Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany

"Construction in Process Nr. 4 - My Home Is Your Home" The Artists' Museum, Lodz, Poland

"Silent Energy", Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

Coalition, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Great Britain

1992

Artists' Museum, Lodz, Poland

1991

"Exceptional Passage, 5 Chinese Contemporary Artists", Fukuoka, Japan

1990

FIAC, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Grand Palais, Paris

"Chine Demain Pour Hier", Pourrieres, France

1989

"Magiciens de la Terre", Centre George Pompidou, Paris

China/Avant-Garde, China National Art Gallery, Beijing

I arrived here from Mainland China in 1988.

It is not easy to make all people identified with the same thing. This is so even when I point to a urinal and tell people it is not for urinating. There are those who still refer to it as a piece of art work, so as to prove their intelligence and taste. People have not learned the lesson of Zhao Gao, who identified a deer with a horse, because there are too many Zhao Gaos.

I have tried using many ways to express the simplicity of my work: this simplicity is created by painting flat layers over other layers with ink on the same square (as an extension of the traditional method of painting, three laters of vitriol and nine times of wash). In the mainland China, this was criticized as "darkening socialism". In France, people think it is "Oriental Black" representing Nothingness and Nihilism. While in Japan, some critics judge this kind of painting as "very romantic". Where my work was showing in Kunstverein of Heidelberg, Germany , it was attacked as "full of Fascist violence"!

The current explosion of knowledge makes one's thoughts far too intense. Today, in the realm of German philosophical thought, it is popular to say that "philosophy does not exist anymore; what remains is thinking." Perhaps, "thinking" should be cleansed with ink as well.

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