About Yahon Chang

Brought up in Taiwan after Second World War, his works portray a particular visual language voicing agony, adversity, and acceptance whilst striving for higher spirituality and peace.

Through the act of painting, both cultural and spiritual values are embodied in an intensely personal manner. In his paintings, the Taiwanese artist Yahon Chang brings together traditional Chinese ink-wash painting and Western forms of artistic expression to produce a synthesis of East and West.

Typically standing on large sheets of linen cloth or xuan paper and wielding a brush almost as long as he is tall, Chang creates works imbued with performative energy characterized by large, sweeping brushstrokes. Drawing on Chinese literati, Zen (Chan) Buddhist traditions and Christian faith, the artist understands painting as an activity that connects body, mind and soul through the exploration of the relationship between calligraphy,

Chinese literati, Zen philosophy, martial art, and spirituality. His entire body functions as an axis for these expressive paintings and is influenced by his training in calligraphy.