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Yang Chongguang’s series of collage on canvas presents a unique artistic language. Through the techniques of cutting, breaking and sewing, it finds an inner balance point between the figurative and the abstract, the simple and the complex. These works not only continue his consistent expressionist style but also break the conventional painting habits and challenge the established creative models through the collage technique on 150-centimeter square canvases. This "simple, direct and brutal" presentation method discards the excessive obsession with painting techniques and emphasizes the straightforward expression of the inner self. The precise selection of materials and images further fills the unutterable emotional void deep in his heart, making the works both experimental and retaining internal coherence, profoundly reflecting the artist’s exploration and persistence in self-expression.
Yang Chongguang was born in Wuhu, Anhui Province in 1955. He studied at the Brunswick Academy of Fine Arts in Germany from 1990 to 1996 with a Master’s Degree. From 1997 to 2014, he was the director of the Centre for Modern Art of the University of Science and Technology of China, and lectured on the history of modern art. He now lives and works in Hefei, Anhui Province.
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