Yang Yongliang è nato a Shanghai nel 1980. Ha

Yang Yongliang è nato a Shanghai nel 1980. Ha studiato alla Fine China Art Academy
Institute.
Ispirandosi all’antica tradizione pittorica delle stampe SHAN SHUI, di tema naturalistico,
profondamente impregnata di significato filosofico e religioso, crea dei mondi che
uniscono tre elementi: la fotografia, la manipolazione digitale e la composizione. Se i
primi due elementi sono considerati da Yongliang come mera espressione, è alla
composizione che assegna il ruolo primario, con la grande capacità di unire una lettura
contemporanea e ironica ad una tradizione culturale importante e propria, come le
Shanshui, affascinante ed antica.
Born in Shanghai in 1980.
He studied at the China Fine Art Academy Institute.
Yongliang is a resident of Shanghai, China who depends heavily on his a camera and a
laptop computer to make his art. Using only these tools—and a knowledge of traditional
Chinese painting traditions—Yongliang invents urban scenes that depict skyscrapers
under construction, freeway systems, electrical power plants, and bustling urban
corridors. His compositions starkly reveal the impacts of technological progress that
China has undergone over past decades.
Yongliang is among a generation of young artists who came of age after the Chinese
Cultural Revolution, and therefore embraces a level of artistic freedom that is not
common among past generations of Chinese artists. Yang Yongliang combines ancient
Chinese art techniques, such as shui mo painting and calligraphy, with photographic
elements of modern urban Shanghai, arranged in the traditional composition of Chinese
landscape, to produce artworks with a perfect balance between fragility and danger,
beauty and cruelty.
Mostre Selezionate/Selected Exhibitions
2011
SHANSHUI.poetry without sound? Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art – Works
from Sigg Collection - Curated by Ai Weiwei, Peter Fischer & Uli Sigg
Kunstmuseum Luzern Musuem of Art Lucerne
Chen Jiagang, Liu Ren, Maleonn, Yang Yongliang Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery
2010
Heavenly City
A cura di Claudio Composti, mc2gallery, Milano Italy
Views from China
Yang Yongliang and Modern Metropolis Solo show
Nevada Art Museum, Reno, U.S.A
Landscape
(My Humble House, Taipei)
China Soul : Maleonn, Yang Yongliang and Zhang Dali
Magda-Danysz Gallery, Paris
Heavenly City
Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery, Paris
Digital Generation: Maleonn, Yang Yongliang, Yang Yi, Chen Nong, Jiang Pengyi and
Liu Ren
Paris-Beijing 798 Gallery, Beijing
Artificial Wonderland
18 Gallery, Shanghai
Multiple Visions
a group show with Chu chu, Liu Ren , Liu Ke, Yang Yongliang
Epsite Beijing
Will to Height -Contempotary art exihibition
Epsite Shanghai
Urban Utopia
Charly Bailly Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
Yang Yongliang
MIFA, Melbourne, Australia
Seoul International Photography Festival
(Seoul, Korea)
2009
Yang Yongliang Photographic Works
LIMN art gallery San Fancisco,USA
Scene-A dialogue with space & time
River south art center , Shanghai
Under construction-Photography on the EXPO 2010 Shanghai
Pudong Library, Shanghai
Rebirth
Chang de rd 800 show shanghai
China Avant Garde - Landscape in Transit
Han Bing, Yang Yongliang & Zhang Wei
LIMN art gallery San Fancisco,USA
City of Phantom Visions
OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai
Drama/Stage, Urban Photography in Shanghai
Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai
Photo Beijing
The Agricultural Exhibition Centre of China, Beijing
On the Quiet Water
45 Downstairs Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2nd Thessaloniki Biennale
Thessaloniki, Greece
40th Anniversary of the Rencontres d’Arles, Discovery Award
Arles, France
Group Exhibitions
Timezone 8 Bookstore, 798 Art District, Beijing
Stairway to Heaven from Chinese Streets to Monument and Skyscraper
H&R Block ArtspaceProject Wall
Kansas City Art Institute
H&R Block Artspace Kansas city,Missouri USA
New Chinese architecture
Institute Cervantes Beijin
Spain Consulate General in Shanghai Shanghai
2008
Two Points. 2008 Chinese Contemporary Art
Palazzo Frisacco Tolmezzo Italy
Stairway to Heaven From Chinese Streets to Monument and Skyscraper
Bates College Museum of Art Maine USA
Artificial Nature
MOCA ARTLAB Shanghai
Collision Part I - New Classic: Yang Yongliang & Gao Feng
FQ Projects, Shanghai
Material Link - A Dialogue Between Greek and Chinese Artists
MOCA Shanghai-Athens
Heavenly City & On the Quiet Water
Solo Exhibition, OFOTO gallery Shanghai
Collision Part II - TU LONG JI: Installation by Yang Yongliang
FQ Projects, Shanghai
Shanghai-urban public-Space
Germany Hamburg HafenCity
Contemporary Chinese art
LIMN gallery, AQUA Art Miami, Miami
Mixed Maze
Red Mansion Foundation, London
2007
Phantom Landscape Series 2&
OFOTO gallery Shanghai
Art Now 2007, Danwon Arts Festival-Contemporary Art Festival
Gyeonggido Museum of Modern art Ansan, Korea
China Pingyao International Photography Festival 2007
Pingyao
Celebrating
Epson Imaging Gallery Shanghai Beijing
2006
Phantom Landscape Series I
OFOTO gallery Shanghai
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
Kunstmuseum Luzern Museum of Art Lucerne,Swiss
Nevada Art Museum, Reno, U.S.A.
MIFA, Melbourne, Australia
River south art center , Shanghai.
Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai.
Bates College Museum of Art, Maine, USA.
MOCA ArtLab, Shanghai.
Gyeonggido Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea.
MAIN COLLECTIONS
AiLing Foundation (Shanghai, China)
Nevada Art Museum (Reno, Nevada, USA)
The British Museum (London, UK)
Bates College Museum of ART (Maine USA)
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (Gainesville, FL,USA)
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (University of Oregon, Portland,OR,USA)
Ulrich Museum of Art (Wichita State University, Wichita Kansas, USA)
National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
Uli Sigg Collection (Swiss)
PAE ART Collection (Swiss)