Yang Jiechang ( Chinese 杨 诘 苍 , Yang Jiechang , [1] 1965 , Foshan ( Guangdong , China ), lives and works in Paris and Heidelberg ) is a contemporary Chinese artist . He, along with Chen Zeng and Huang Yongping, belongs to the first generation of contemporary Chinese artists known in the West thanks to exhibitions such as “The Mages of the Earth” (“Magiciens de la terre”), organized by Jean-Hubert Martin in The Pompidou Center in Paris in 1989 .
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| Date of Birth | 1965 |
| Place of Birth | Foshan City District, Guangdong Province , China |
| Genre | installation , painting , video |
After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1982 , Yang Jiechang studied Tao under the guidance of Taoist master Huantao.
He works in many media: painting , video , installation , demonstrating talent in calligraphy and classical Chinese painting. His work has been shown at many important exhibitions and biennials, including the first exhibition of contemporary Chinese art, China Avant-garde, in 1989 .
Like most Guangzhou art scene artists, his works often have strong political connotations. His searches focused on identifying foci of tension between eastern and western culture.
Personal exhibitions
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- ↑ Although dictionaries give the hieroglyph 苍 only the pronunciation of cang (tsan), not chang (chan), most sources write down the name of this artist precisely Jiechang, not Jiecang. See e.g. http://www.artzinechina.com/display_vol_aid398_cn.html Archived January 17, 2010 on the Wayback Machine and http://www.artzinechina.com/display_vol_aid398_en.html Archived October 11th, 2008 on the Wayback Machine .