Famous for his photographs and videos of landscapes bathed in a dreamlike atmosphere, Yang Yongliang subtly blends tradition and modernity. The Magda Danysz Gallery presents recent works from September 8 to October 20, 2012.  Born in Shanghai, where he still works today, Yang Yongliang has witnessed since childhood the evolution of the constantly changing city.

In his new novel Moonlight, Yang Yongliang draws inspiration from the surrounding megalopolis from Taipei to Shanghai via Chengdu, a provincial city with 15 million people, continually growing. The exhibition of Yang Yongliang, the largest to date, brings together not only photographic works but also a set of four light boxes. There is also an in situ installation where a moon is reflected in a giant pool of water. The gallery also presents a new video by the artist presented of four screens.

Yang Yongliang technique combines art and technology sequentially it seems at the boundary between photography and calligraphy. The artist composes classical landscapes with elements of contemporary cities, such antennas, electric cars, cranes and skyscrapers. In the manner of an ancient calligraphy, these thousands of small elements arranged form the landscape. At first glance we can see a landscape in the tradition of Chinese painting and we only discover the symbols of urbanization, buildings, cranes or highway after a second review of the work. The frenetic Asia is omnipresent in the works of Yang Yongliang. The cities are perpetually changing; growing at rapid speed. Yang Yongliang work represents the development of modern China. This rapid urbanization is also accompanied by major upheavals and radical changes in Chinese companies that develop and modern so rapidly that sometimes they create inequalities and imbalances in society.