Yang Jiechang: 100 Layers of Ink, 100 Layers of Action

Volume 17, Number 2, March/April 2018
by Susanna Ferrell and Britta Erickson


Article Description

An essay by Susanna Ferrell and Britta Erickson on the early work of Yang Jiechang, one of contemporary Chinese art’s most important artists and among the first to exhibit outside of China. The multi-year series of nearly all-black paintings, titled 100 Layers of Ink, embodies a complex deliberation of the artist’s social, political, and spiritual life journey.


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Susanna Ferrell, Britta Erickson, Yang Jiechang, Martina Köppel-Yang, 100 Layers of Ink, ink painting, Magiciens de la terre, Jean-Hubert Martin, Chine demain pour hier (China Tomorrow for Yesterday), Fei Dawei