Yang Jiechang
YANG Jiechang was born in Foshan (Guangdong Province) in 1956. He graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1982, where he taught until 1988. He has lived and worked in Paris and Heidelberg, Germany, since 1988. Yang gained international recognition through his large monochrome black ink paintings entitled Hundred Layers of Ink, shown for the first time in the seminal exhibition “Magiciens de la terre” in the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1989.
