Yang Maolin
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Yang Maolin is a noted contemporary Taiwanese
artist.
Born in 1953 in Changhua, Taiwan
, Yang studied painting at the Chinese Culture University in Taipei. He co-founded several artists groups linked to the Transavantgarde movement in Taiwan: 101 and the Taipei Group in the 1980s, and Hantooshe in the late 1990s. Beyond numerous museum shows in Taiwan and Asia, he participated three times at the Venice Biennale
: in 1999 he took part in the collateral event VOC- Handle with Care, in 2009 he staged his solo show Temple of Sublime Beauty, Made in Taiwan, and in 2011 he participated at Future Pass.
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
artist.
Born in 1953 in Changhua, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, Yang studied painting at the Chinese Culture University in Taipei. He co-founded several artists groups linked to the Transavantgarde movement in Taiwan: 101 and the Taipei Group in the 1980s, and Hantooshe in the late 1990s. Beyond numerous museum shows in Taiwan and Asia, he participated three times at the Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
: in 1999 he took part in the collateral event VOC- Handle with Care, in 2009 he staged his solo show Temple of Sublime Beauty, Made in Taiwan, and in 2011 he participated at Future Pass.
External links
- Yang Maolin´s Temple of Sublime Beauty, Made in Taiwan exhibition in Venice 2009
- http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/venice_biennale/2011/tour/future_pass/yang_maolin Yang Maolin at the Future Pass exhibition in Venice 2011