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Book pre-launch panel | Yahon Chang: Painting as Performance

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Book pre-launch panel | Yahon Chang: Painting as Performance 崇真艺客

Yahon Chang, Painting Performance

In September 2022, Hatje Cantz will publish Yahon Chang: Painting as Performance. Edited by art historian and curator Dr. Britta Erickson, this scholarly monograph comprehensively documents Yahon Chang’s oeuvre through authoritative texts by international art historians, curators and critics. Yahon Chang: Painting as Performance will feature over 300 reproductions of Chang's work, and will be distributed internationally by Thames & Hudson.

On Sunday, May 22 at 1:30, Taipei Dangdai will hold a panel discussion moderated by J. J. Shih with the artist Yahon Chang and authors Britta Erickson, Ph.D. and Manu Park, Ph.D. on the forthcoming monograph which rigorously documents Yahon Chang’s development as a Taiwan-born painter into an international performance artist.

Yahon Chang: Painting as Performance

Book pre-launch panel as part of Taipei Dangdai’s Ideas Forum

Sunday, May 22nd from 1:30-2:30 pm

Panelists

Yahon Chang, Taiwan-born artist

Britta Erickson, Ph.D., curator and art historian

Manu Park, D.E.A., former Director of the Nam June Paik Art Center in Korea

Moderated by J.J. Shih, Trustee of Contemporary Art Foundation, former Director of Guandu Museum of Art

Excerpts from Yahon Chang: Painting as Performance

“As he dipped his brush into the ink and pulled it back, intentionally allowing paint to drip randomly, a viewer might recall the film of Jackson Pollock famously shot through glass from below. Yet Chang’s action-paintings also pertain to a lexicon of calligraphy, to what Chinese literati (in general, prestigious scholars appointed by government, first named in medieval China) refer to as 'xieyi,' which means to write (xie) the meaning (yi), abstract drawing that expresses the inner self, rather than describing outward appearances.”

Rose Lee Goldberg, Founder and Director of Performa

Yahon Chang, Sentient Beings: Prophet, 200 x145 cm, ink and acrylic on canvas, 2010

“It is wonderful to think of all the dances of finger, hand, wrist, arm, torso, spine, hips, thighs, knees, calves, and every part of the feet that each of these brushes evokes—they are like the needle end of a cardiogram at different scales, capable of capturing the finest vibration of energy, the subtlest tremor of sense. Through them the body is both extended and grounded—capable of being both transmitter and receiver of all that being-in-the-world affords, both conscious and intuitive!”

Sir Antony Gormley, OBE

“While Yahon Chang sought formal education in Chinese brush-and-ink painting and has throughout his life found inspiration in the works of a panoply of historical painting masters, both Eastern and Western, his works defy categorization. Painted and performed in bursts of instinctual creativity, they cannot be judged in ordinary terms: they should be considered of the 'untrammeled' (yipin) class. For over a thousand years, Chinese art history has maintained the untrammeled as a special category for artists who function outside the regular, codified desiderata of painting. An untrammeled painter does not respect the supposed apogee of brushwork and composition, instead making freely inventive use of the materials at hand. It is thought that such an approach to painting invariably reveals the quality of the artist’s character.”

Britta Erickson, Ph.D., curator and art historian

Yahon Chang, Shadow of Buddha series: Repose, 41 x 31 cm, acrylic on canvas, 1996

“A group of monks are descending the stairs in a group, leaving the main hall after finishing their morning prayers before dawn … the monks' faces in shadows or semi-shades appear in a variety of shapes that are far from realistic human faces. Some look like Buddha statues, others look like animals, and some look like African masks. Some of the monks' robes, which appear only as silhouettes in the dark, do not look like clothes wrapped around a human body, but look like cows or horses seen from behind … It is interesting that the artist expressed the joy of being as a kind of collective effervescence that is trans-individual. An affect that blurs the lines between sacred and profane, culture and nature, night and day, heaven and earth, manhood and animal, life and death dominates the entire picture scene. The Buddhist idea of transcendence in immanence resides consistently in the Yahon Chang’s painted oeuvre.”

Manu Park, D.E.A., former Director of the Nam June Paik Art Center in Korea

“Chang’s painterly gestures and drips embody a phenomenology of being and depict figures in a state of emergence, while at the same time referencing the artist as a body in action. His innovative art combines gestures that are concurrently figurative, performative, and expressive. With this unique and personal approach, he brings the surfaces of his paintings to life in order to explore the tension between origin and full embodiment, time and temporality, tradition and modernity.”

Maria Rus Bojan, international art critic and curator

Yahon Chang, Animal Series: Cat, 195 x 141 cm, ink, gouache, and acrylic on paper, 1999

Yahon Chang, Animal Series: Cat, 198 x 145 cm, ink, gouache, and acrylic on paper, 1999

“Yahon Chang breaks with the prejudices of human exceptionalism in his everyday life. His artwork challenges us to see all living beings as persons with inner worlds, emotional lives, cognition, affective bonds, and meaningful relationships—beings with selves and real lives. In this way, he joins a cutting-edge wave of contemporary scientists, ethologists, and philosophers who do this in their own disciplines, against the dominant discourse.”

Maya Kovskaya, Ph.D., international art critic and Anthropocene theoris

Yahon Chang recently completed public performances in Performa 19 in New York (2019), at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence (2019), and at Outset’s artist-in-residence in London responding to a space designed by spatial practitioners Cooking Sections (2019). Major solo exhibitions include Poetry of the Flow curated by Maria Rus Bojan at Manifesta 12 in Palermo, Italy (2018), The Question of Beings at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2016) and an official collateral program of the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), the Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover, Germany (2014), the Kunstforum Markert, Hamburg, Germany (2013), the Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (2013), the China Art Academy Museum, Hangzhou, China (2012), the Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2012), the Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea (2011), the MOCA Taipei (2011), the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2008), the National Museum of History, Taipei (2005), the National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2005) and the Shanghai Art Museum (2000), among others. His artworks are included in the permanent collections of Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China, the Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea, the Piervittorio Leopardi and Lidia Berlingeri Collection, Rome, Italy and the Fondation INK Collection, Geneva, Switzerland.

INKstudio at Taipei Dangdai 2022

Yahon Chang: Ode to Life

A monumental painting performance

Tuesday, May 17th from 3:00-4:30 pm

Center for Art and Technology, Taipei National University of Arts

Yahon Chang: Painting as Performance

Book pre-launch panel as part of Taipei Dangdai’s Ideas Forum

Sunday, May 22nd from 1:30-2:30 pm

Panelists：

Yahon Chang, Taiwan-born artist

Britta Erickson, Ph.D., curator and art historian

Manu Park, D.E.A., former Director of the Nam June Paik Art Center in Korea

Moderated by J.J. Shih, Trustee of Contemporary Art Foundation, former Director of Guandu Museum of Art

About INKstudio

INKstudio is an art gallery based in Beijing and New York. Its mission is to present Chinese experimental ink as a distinctive contribution to contemporary transnational art-making in a closely-curated exhibition program supported by in-depth critical analysis, scholarly exchange, bilingual publishing, and multimedia production. INKstudio's program encompasses Postwar and contemporary artists from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan including Bingyi, Chang Yahon, Chen Haiyan, Cheng Yen-ping, Dai Guangyu, He Yunchang, Hung Fai, Huang Chih-yang, Inoue Yu-ichi, Jennifer Wen Ma,Jeong Kwang-hee, Kim Jong-ku, Lee In, Li Jin, Li Huasheng, Lim Hyun-lak, Lim Ok-sang, Liu Dan, Peng Kang-long, Ethan Su Huang-Sheng, Tao Aimin, Wai Pong-yu, Wang Dongling, Wang Tiande, Wei Ligang, Xu Bing, Yang Jiechang and Zheng Chongbin and exhibits works of diverse media, including painting, calligraphy, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, and video. Since its inception in 2012, INKstudio has regularly appeared at art fairs such as the Armory Show (New York), Art Basel Hong Kong, and West Bund Art & Design (Shanghai) and placed works into major public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and M+, Hong Kong.