Yang yongliang prints

Trained in traditional calligraphy and ink and brush painting since a young age and formally studied computer imaging at China Art Academy, Yang Yongliang has been creating stunning imageries that demonstrate both traditional literati aesthetic and contemporary methods and digital technique. Since his early series Phantom Landscape , Yang has developed his signature visual language of digital painting, which allows him to juxtapose various compositional elements and imageries that allude to the spiritual home in the past and issues at present.

Often presented in the manner and style of traditional ink painting,his landscapes explore both collective history and personal memory. At first sight his works evoke nature imagined and delineated by the literati in pre modern China, yet with closer look, the viewers are startled to realize that the artist deftly replaced the towering peaks and misty valleys with thick layers of identical high-rise buildings, luxuriant trees and plants with construction cranes and electricity towers, and seals and calligraphic inscriptions with map symbols, industrial printed characters and financial charts.

Yongliang yang

By doing this, he addresses to the issues of swift urbanization that has been taking place in China since the early s, collective cultural identity in the age of total Modernization, and the seemingly unavoidable assimilation in the process of globalization. He lives and works in Shanghai, China. Use tab to navigate through the menu items.

Related Exhibitions.