Yang Jiechang

Gift of the artist to the present owner

This work is in generally very good condition overall. The white paint has spread beyond the borders of the clouds which is inherent to the medium. Otherwise there are no apparent condition problems with this work.
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Tomorrow Cloudy Sky is a series of meticulous colour paintings, originally created for an exhibition scheduled in Teheran, Iran, in 2006. Representing vistas of atom bomb explosions, I consider this series of works a kind of gift for the country, bringing to Iran what international politics prohibited. By choosing a very refined painting technique and material - mineral colours on silk - to represent an extremely terrifying subject, and thus by opposing beauty and horror/terror, I try to initiate reconsideration of this explosive topic on another more neutral and universal level. Some of these paintings are combined with calligraphy that gives a scary weather report.

-Yang Jiechang, Paris 2006