SANG HUOYAO (B. 1963)

Sang Huoyao's works make us aware of and feel as sense another contemporary metaphor. When standing in front of his ink painting works, we may step into a transparent, fictional as well as real space full of imagined real blocks of color. As a painted darkness, it makes the light and our being appear more clearly: in a flash of self-clearance, of self-awareness, of visibility and freedom, of the essence of art and human being, of all things, materially as well as spiritually. It is a celebration of a painting. An exhibition likes a chapel through the power of images, through the condensed atmosphere of the brutalist space and also through the abandonment of an exclusionary religious symbolism in favor of an aesthetic-spiritual invitation: here is a special place and an “affective-imagoism art” in mind established.
－－Gregor Jansen
（Gregor Jansen, an internationally well-known curator, art critic and free-lancer author. Now he is the director of Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.）