Art Seasons Gallery is pleased to present ‘Memory Loss', an exhibition of Yang Xun's paintings from 2008 - 2010. His black and white depiction of historic remains grasps a palpable atmosphere of absence and melancholy. These stoic images of ruins, such as of Yuanmingyuan - the Imperial Gardens destroyed during the Second Opium War (1860) - indirectly question the underlying notion of creation, myth and loss.

Moreover, by referencing traditional landscapes in a painstakingly precise and objective manner, he attempts to undermine the historic significance of the location, leaving only the disquiet of sensory experience. One has to look outside his images to understand the violence to which they may refer. Devoid of preconditioned reading, the complex beauty in Yang Xun's work springs from such uninflected fragments of historic memory.

Yang Xun (b. 1981) was born in Chongqing, China and received a BFA in Oil Painting from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He has participated in international exhibitions in Germany, USA, UK, China, Taiwan and Korea. His works are in collections of Shenzhen Art Museum, He Xiangning Art Museum and Chengdu Modern Art Center.