Yang Maolin Explained

Yang Maolin
Native Name:楊茂林
Native Name Lang:zh
Birth Place:Changhua, Taiwan
Nationality:Taiwanese

Yang Maolin (; born 1953) is a Taiwanese artist known for his political paintings and his art that investigates Taiwanese identity.[1]

Biography

Yang was born in 1953 in Changhua, Taiwan.[1] His father had served in the Japanese Army, and was imprisoned by the Kuomintang after World War II, while his relatives were involved in the February 28 incident.[1] Yang's father ran small manufacturing businesses with scant success, while his mother worked menial jobs.[2]

Yang studied painting at the Chinese Culture University from 1975 to 1979, and attended graduate school at the National Institute of the Arts in Taipei from 1999 to 2002.[3] From 1995, Yang was represented by Lin & Keng Gallery.[4]

Career

Yang was influenced by Italian Transavantgarde and Neo-expressionism when these movements were introduced to Taiwan in the early 1980s.[2] Yang co-founded successive artist groups dedicated to political and figurative art, including '101 Modern Art Group' and 'Taipei Art Group' in the 1980s, and 'Hantoo Art Group' in the 1990s.[1]

Yang is chiefly known for his politically charged paintings of the 1980s, and his decade-long investigation into the political, historical, and cultural aspects of Taiwanese identity during the 1990s, which comprises his painting series MADE IN TAIWAN (19892001).[1] [5] [6] [7] After the turn of the millennium, he started to explore sculpture, blending Buddhist iconography with manga characters.[8] [9] Beyond numerous museum shows in Asia, Europe, and the US, Yang has participated in three collateral events at the Venice Biennale: the exhibition VOC: Handle with Care with Huang Yong Ping in 1999;[3] the solo show Temple of Sublime Beauty, Made in Taiwan in 2009;[9] [10] and the exhibition Future Pass in 2011.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: McIntyre . Sophie . Imagining Taiwan: The Role of Art in Taiwan's Quest for Identity (19872010) . 2018 . Brill . 978-90-04-29012-9. 107142.
  2. Book: Gong . Jow-Jiun . Made in Taiwan — Yang Mao-Lin: A Retrospective . 2016 . Taipei Fine Arts Museum . Taipei . 3043 . Rebellious Nomadology: Yang Mao-Lin's Split Rhetoric and Sarcasm.
  3. Book: Liao . Tsung-Ling . Made in Taiwan — Yang Mao-Lin: A Retrospective . 2016 . Taipei Fine Arts Museum . Taipei . 9789860509793 . 398403 . Biography.
  4. News: Teng . Sue-feng . Seeing the Immortals--The World of Sculptor Yang Mao-lin . 10 July 2023 . Taiwan Panorama . May 2008.
  5. Book: Harrell . Steven . Cultural Change In Postwar Taiwan . 1994 . Westview Press . Boulder.
  6. Book: Gao . Minglu . Inside/out: New Chinese Art . 1998 . San Francisco Museum of Modern Art . 1540 . Toward a Transnational Modernity.
  7. News: Her . Kelly . Drawing from the Heart . 10 July 2023 . Taiwan Today . 1 July 2020.
  8. Book: Schoeber . Felix . Temple of Sublime Beauty - Made in Taiwan: Yang Maolin . 2009 . Lin & Keng Gallery . Taipei . 9789578238664 . 81–86 . Yang Maolin and Taiwanese Identity: Agonistic Democracy and Clash of Global Powers.
  9. Book: Fan . Pan . Liu . Yuedi . Mary . Wiseman . Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Chinese Art . 2011 . Brill . Post-colonial and Contemporary Art Trends in Taiwan. 321–332. 978-90-04-18795-5.
  10. News: Wu . Amber . 'Comic gods' to debut in Venice biennale . 10 July 2023 . Taiwan Today . 15 May 2009.

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