About

About the exhibition

Through his works, Yu Yang discusses the topic of tradition and modernism. He thinks that the expression of traditional and contemporary ink painting cannot be entirely adequate to today, nor can it suit this era. That is why Yu Yang tries to narrow the distance between tradition and today in the wriest possible way.

Yu Yang dips rice paper into ink, then covers wood sticks with those ink papers, and lays them inside the cubes one by one. The order of sticks is determined by the proportion of ink, water and pigment through a rational and orderly fashion. In the meantime, …