YANG GALLERY will be participating at Art Busan 2018 from 20th – 22th April 2018.
VIP preview：4.19
Exhibition period: 4.20-4.22
Venue: BEXCO
Art Busan, which was launched in 2012 with the purpose of transforming Busan into the city of art and culture, has held a variety of exhibitions introducing the current and future trends of modern art, and it has now become the largest nationwide art festival. Art Busan has served as an art platform which actively responded to changes in the art fair market and introduced original programs based on its own vision. It has also strived to promote the excellence of Korean artists and discover new artists and introduce them to the global art market through a number of special and collaborating exhibitions.
We look forward to see you at the fair!
Exhibiting Artists
Lee Jinhyu
Born in Seoul, Korea
Graduated from Madrid University, Spain (Master’s Degree in Painting)
Graduated from Gachon University, Korea
Lee Jin Hyu possesses a critical view regarding the aspect that the occurrences of historical issues in art led by the United States and some European countries form the mainstream of world art history after modernism. As his background in Spain and Iraq would suggest, he supports a pluralist position of culture and history, and proceeds to present a unique worldview in regard to the form of life and death, as well as political equality. Lee Jin Hyu is the type that is devoted to the values of a third party rather than the interests in art history of his time. He himself evokes romantic dreams and also is the style that enjoys powerful imaginations.
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama was born in Matsumoto City, Japan in 1929. She studied Nihonga painting, a rigorous formal style developed during the Meiji period (1868–1912) to deflect the wholesale influence of Western art through the revitalization of the traditions of Japanese painting and their synthesis with aspects of Western art.
Zhang Xiaogang
1958, Born in Kunming, Yunnan province
1982 Graduation form Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
Inspired by family photos from the Cultural
period, as well as the European tradition of surrealism, Zhang Xiaogang’s paintings engage with the notion of identity within the Chinese culture of collectivism. Basing his work around the concept of ‘family’ –immediate, extended, and societal – Xiaogang’s portraits depict an endless genealogy of imagined forebears and progenitors, each unnervingly similar and distinguished by minute difference.
Zhou Chunya
Zhou Chunya was born in 1955 in Chongqing.
The artist is best known for his colorful “Green Dog” series of paintings. However, his repertoire also includes colorful expressionistic series of figures, landscapes, and flowers. The artist has had numerous shows around the world and was also awarded Martell’s 2010 Artist of the Year. In the 1990s, artist Zhou Chunya began work on the Green Dog series, depicting his beloved German Shepherd, Hei Gen (“Black root”). Zhou describes the green dog as a sort of symbolic self- portrait. Concerned less about subject and more about direct expression of emotion, using vivid colors, high contrast and a loose, expressionistic painting style, the artist gives his subject anthropomorphic qualities.
