Yang Xiaofan

1980 Born in Tianjin

2004 Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree

Currently works and lives in Tianjin

GROUP EXHIBITION

2015 

2015 Art Nova 100, Beijing

2012  

Culture Desert - Kubuqi Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ordos Museum of Contemporary Art, Ordos

2011  

Art Archives of the 80's Generation, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing

Red Gate Launch Pad, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing

2010  

Tianjin New Painting Exhibition, Tianjin Art Museum,Tianjin

2006 

Half is sea water, half is flame, Bronze Age Gallery, Beijing

2004  

Tianjin Youth Art Exhibition, Tianjin

2003  

Emory Tower - Four People Oil Painting Exhibition, Yanhuang Art Museum, Beijing

Yang Xiaofan: When I created the series "Time and Existence", I placed electrical appliances such as the modern refrigerator into life as seen in classical paintings. They are hundreds of years apart, yet in art they can meet, and reveal that apart from some outward details, human life remains basically the same. Time is a great force, first taking everything away, and then leaving everything behind. Perhaps this is the meaning of life itself. In the series "Dimensions of Time", I focus on the changes that occur overtime in a single same scene. The electrical appliances and pictures were all changing, revealing my internal experience. An individual exists alone, lonely but also independent, like the bone in my painting, toughly persisting on. As Jean-Paul Sartre said, human consciousness is the root of all existence, and the world exists because we are in it.