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Yuan Fang's ‘Galloping’ belongs to a recent series of large-scale paintings, dealing with the increasing intimacy between the canvas and the space in which the artist creates. Evident of a gestural process that involves speedy choreographic movements, the inky artwork depicts abstract forms that resemble curling whirlwinds; red, green and white slashes ominously gather and shatter, confusing the subject and the ground of the painting. Just as many of Fang's multilayered abstract paintings, the intense, tumultuous surface of ‘Galloping’ builds upon erasures and paint-overs, leaving …