Yang Xiaojian: Fauvist Ink
Visual Arts
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Alisan Fine Arts is pleased to present our first solo exhibition for the contemporary artist Yang Xiaojian, whose bold revival of classical calligraphy into a form reflective of Western abstract expressionism has earned him the title of “the Oriental Ink Beast.” In these large works on paper, the artist deconstructs Chinese ideograms into power-fuelled, ambitious compositions that challenge conventional East-West categorisation. In the words of Professor Fan Di’an, Director of the National Art Museum of China Curator for Contemporary Art: “Yang Xiaojian is an artist who challenges both native tradition and western influence with a Chinese medium—the ink and wash—an art form that he committed himself to for the last 20 years, proving in the process that art is both a means of spiritual redemption and an action of cultural transcendence of universal significance.”
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