YANG JIECHANG (B. 1956)

Trained in Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy, Yang Jiechang left for Paris in 1989 to participate in the ‘Magiciens de la Terre’ exhibition at Centre Georges Pompidou. For the past twenty plus years, he has been living and working in both Paris and Heidelberg. Hou Hanru, the curator of the 10th Biennale de Lyon, once commented on Yang, ‘he is probably the most unpredictable and chaotic artist in his generation. For the last thirty years, he has constructed an immense body of work. It covers a large span of media and languages from ink-wash painting, Chinese calligraphy, drawing, photography, installation, performance, sound, music, multimedia to simply everyday actions while the formats vary from huge and oversized to tiny and quasi immaterial.’

Underground Flowers is a series Yang created between 1989 and 2009. Consisted of blue and white porcelain sculptures of various shapes of human bones, these sculptures are empowered by a sense of wonder and playfulness, which have surpassed the traditional connotation of death and terror associated with them.