Yahon Chang, Dream Land (Blossoms Flourishing: The Destination Series, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 194x130cm ©Platform-L Contemporary Art CenterThe Night Migrations, a solo exhibition by artist Yahon Chang (b. 1948), will run from September 7 to October 15 at Platform-L Contemporary Art Center. The exhibition will feature 46 paintings across four exhibition spaces.
Reinterpreting the Chinese literati painting tradition, Yahon Chang creates experimental ink paintings based on calligraphy. Understanding painting not only as an act that takes place on the canvas, but also as an act that connects the body, mind, and unconscious. The artist is known for his performance works, in which he stands on a large canvas or Chinese drawing paper and draws with a brush similar in size to his height.
This exhibition focuses on two series of paintings, and , created between 1996 and 2005, as well as a selection of abstract landscape paintings created between 2005 and 2019. Gallery 2 and Gallery 3 will focus on the series. The large-scale paintings, which are stacked with vibrant colors such as pink and white, are reminiscent of the image of idealized nature in traditional Chinese landscape painting. In Annex 2 and Annex 3, the exhibition centers on , which, unlike the explosion of colors in , is painted on a black canvas with black paint, so that the figure of Buddha is revealed subtly on canvas.
