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Lot Essay
Yang Chi-Hung, a contemporary Chinese artist living in New York, graduated from the Western Painting Group in National Taiwan College of Arts (now known as Taiwan University of Arts) in 1968. In 1970s, Yang moved to New York, the United States; in 1989 he received the Outstanding Asian Artist Award from the Governor of New York, he is the first Chinese artist awarded a fellowship from the "National Studio" in the United States. After decades dedicating in the area of abstract painting, Yang becomes a leading figure in Chinese abstract painting community, and has long played an active part in Galleries and Museums in major cities around the world.
In his art career over four decades, Yang has been through several stylistic transitions: Yang began to reflect upon his own "existence" when he was a student; he entered the dimension of "urban culture" after setting foot in society; he then extended to explore on the deeper "cultural diversity" after moving to the United States.; since 1990s Yang started on a brand new style of painting, in which "plant" became the principle axis, his reflection on the confrontation of death was transformed into the hymn of life, he began on the artistic representation of the alternations in Nature, the booms and bust of life, as well as the passage of time. Through years of abstract painting experience, Yang's paintings present an intense sense of "painterly" and "manifestation", by using colour contrast, Yang creates a light-shadow effect in the dark. The imagination and vision deep inside the artist are reflected in every way, from the reproducing the touch of Nature, through the construction of abstract colour fields, and to the representation of common symbols. Encompassing both the unrestrained Western spatial temporal reasoning and the Chinese style brushstrokes of traditional calligraphy and water-and -ink painting, Yang has gradually developed an unique style of freehand manifestation. Moreover, with his accomplishment and fondness in literature and music, his work is profoundly rhythmic, philosophical, and permeated in a richly cultural and poetic atmosphere.
In his art career over four decades, Yang has been through several stylistic transitions: Yang began to reflect upon his own "existence" when he was a student; he entered the dimension of "urban culture" after setting foot in society; he then extended to explore on the deeper "cultural diversity" after moving to the United States.; since 1990s Yang started on a brand new style of painting, in which "plant" became the principle axis, his reflection on the confrontation of death was transformed into the hymn of life, he began on the artistic representation of the alternations in Nature, the booms and bust of life, as well as the passage of time. Through years of abstract painting experience, Yang's paintings present an intense sense of "painterly" and "manifestation", by using colour contrast, Yang creates a light-shadow effect in the dark. The imagination and vision deep inside the artist are reflected in every way, from the reproducing the touch of Nature, through the construction of abstract colour fields, and to the representation of common symbols. Encompassing both the unrestrained Western spatial temporal reasoning and the Chinese style brushstrokes of traditional calligraphy and water-and -ink painting, Yang has gradually developed an unique style of freehand manifestation. Moreover, with his accomplishment and fondness in literature and music, his work is profoundly rhythmic, philosophical, and permeated in a richly cultural and poetic atmosphere.