Yang Yongliang,la Silent Valley

  
Parigi –  Galerie Paris-Beijing is pleased to present Yang Yongliang’s new series of photographs and video installations.

Yang Yongliang has studied traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy with the great master Yang Yang in Shanghai. Today, he cleverly combines this ancient art with photography and new medias to create a futuristic and age-old world at one time. Formatted to long panoramic scrolls, printed on cotton paper and red-stamped like in the ancient times, the whole composition being black and white as it would be Chinese ink, Yang Yongliang’s pictures do indeed represent the contemporary Shanshui*.
When watching the photographic works at a distance they seem calligraphy paintings and old time’s natural misty landscapes. On the contrary when looking at them closely, they become shockingly modern city views.

In the Silent Valley series, a white-dressed character, emblematic figure of the ancient wisdom, wanders in a valley where the centenarians threes and the holy mountains have been replaced by power masts and skyscrapers.

Images in the Moonlight series are futuristic representations of our megalopolises achieving a stunning urban sprawl. Lit up by light boxes, they plunge us in a dreamlike (or nightmare’s) dimension. The Day of Perpetual Night video animates this same insomniac vision of sprawling cities constantly expanding with an infernal rhythm, which artificial lights do not allow any distinction between day and night.

The splendid and visionary works of Yang Yongliang move us to pose a challenge on the future of the planet and our lives, more and more threatened by the devastating effects of uncontrolled urbanisation and industrialisation.

 * Shan shui (Chinese: 山 水 lit. “mountain-water”) refers to a style of Chinese painting that involves or depicts scenery or natural landscapes, using a brush and ink rather than more conventional paints.

      
YANG YONGLIANG, The Silent Valley
March 14th – May 11th
Galerie Paris-Beijing
PARIS | BRUSSELS | BEIJING
Paris: 54 rue du Vertbois, 75003 Paris, France ( M° Arts et Métiers )
Tel: +33 ( 0 ) 1 42 74 32 36
www.galerieparisbeijing.com

Immagine: “The Day of Perpetual Night”

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(21.03.2013)
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