Yang belongs to a generation of artists who left China to Europe in the late 1980s and built up a successful international career. Yang made his reputation with large monochrome black ink paintings, the “Hundred Layers of Ink” series (1989-98), which was unveiled to the public at the “Les magiciens de la terre” exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in 1989. These meditative works combine eastern tradition and spirituality with modern and post-mode ...