“Space for Perspective” introduces discourses on space by three renowned contemporary artists: Ian Woo (b.1967) of Singapore, Sanghoon Kang (b.1978) of Korea, and Wang Chuan (b.1953) of China.

Chang Art is a new Korean owned gallery with a 350 square meter exhibition space located at the 798 Art Zone in Beijing. It is adjacent to Belgium’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art and Japan’s Beijing Tokyo Art Projects.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Ian WOO

Ian Woo, born in 1967, is a Singaporean painter. He began his studies at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 1988. Between 1993 and 1995, Woo completed his BA at the Kent Institute of Art and Design and his MFA at the Winchester School of Art. Woo’s first professional exhibition was in 1992 and he has since had five solo exhibitions and has participated in as many as sixty-two group exhibitions both local and international.

Woo’s work is abstract and often consists of multiple painting techniques. His work tends to depict subjects/objects on the verge of some kind of physical transience. His compositions are informed by music, film, poetry, and oftentimes the recovery of some incidental dialogue. He believes that his paintings come into existence via the notion of ‘fictional gravities.’

Woo’s work is in the collection both corporations and institutions such as ABN AMRO, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, SMU, UBS, and Victorian Tapestry Workshop. In 2006 he earned his Doctorate in Fine Art from RMIT with his research: Momentary Word Paintings-Analyses of Momentary Structures between Contemporary Music, Text, and Painting. In 2008 Woo was honored as a featured artist in Showcase Singapore’s inaugural art fair. Woo currently lectures at LaSalle College of the Arts and is Programme Leader for the Faculty of Fine Arts, Postgraduate studies program.

Sanghoon KANG

Sanghoon Kang graduated from Cooper Union, New York, in 2002 and is representative of the new generation of Korean artists working internationally today. Korean arts professionals recognized Kang’s talent from the first time his works were shown in public. His audience was moved by his unique ideas and his endless enthusiasm for art. Kang’s working process always begins with an exploration into materials. An example of this is a single piece of paper that when spread out onto the street becomes a living ‘time record’ of space in which each passerby’s footsteps and street smudges become part of the paper. The smeared paper eventually becomes part of the street, and this paper is then the starting point for Kang’s work.

Wang CHUAN

A graduate of the Chinese painting department at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Wang Chuan was one of the preeminent artists to emerge out of China since the ‘1985 New Wave.’ As early as 1990, Wang had a solo exhibition in Shenzhen, China, entitled ‘Blackness,’ which integrated installations, behaviors, and abstract ink paintings. This exhibition marked the start of conceptual ink painting experiments of the 1990s. In his current oil paintings, Wang Chuan still brings traces of the Qiyun (energy and enthusiasm; verve) that he borrows from traditional ink painting.

For more information please visit www.changart.com.