Yangjiang Group consists of three artists Zheng Guogu, Chen Zaiyan and Sun Qinglin, they work and live in Yangjiang, a small city near Pearl Delta region in Guangdong Province. This Trio is quite unique amongst the Contemporary Chinese Art scene, as artists from all over China pour into internationalized metropolises such as Beijing and Shanghai to set up their studios and careers, the Yangjiang Trio purposely avoids the political and cultural centers and insists upon being geographically marginalized, this gives them an unique cultural status, while so, they stay clear of the grand narrative, the apparent criticism within their art, instead, the Trio tend to represent and magnify interesting social phenomenon through  grass-root perspective with a subversive manner.

Their artworks had already won international attention, some works were exhibited by invitation in Kassel Documenta, Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Lyon Biennale and many other international exhibitions. The works shown in this upcoming solo- exhibition in Tang Contemporary is a total upgrade of his work “Garden of Pine – Also Fierce than Tiger”which was exhibited in Lyon Biennale 2009. The artist will transform the vast exhibition space of Tang Contemporary Art into a strange playground—a “knock-off” of traditional and scholarly Chinese painting used as a background for the modern day secular and popular scene of gambling games. In an elegant surrounding traditionally appropriate for poems, paintings and such, we see groups of people drinking alcohol and playing dice. Standing along with scenic pine trees is a live transmission of a football game and its lottery numbers, which will be projected onto two large screens. The artist group discusses how modern day Chinese secular society gains so-called “development with Chinese Characteristics” through the juxtaposition of traditional culture and Western market economy, this development will inevitably bring about new and game-like life styles.          

Yangjiang Group is a continuation of the Yangjiang Calligraphy Group that was founded originally in 2002, it had 4 members including Zheng Guogu, Chen Zaiyan and Sun Qinglin etc. It later shaped into a stable structure and in 2005 it changed the name to Yangjiang Group. The artists all work and live in Yangjiang.