Shan Gang (Hefei, PRC) creates paintings inspired as much by traditional Chinese ink painting as European and American modernism. His sketched figures, whose features are often rendered two-dimensionally, have their roots in ink painting, while his thick application of colorful brushwork suggests Western abstraction. Immersed in the Chinese painting tradition before living and studying in the Netherlands in the late 1980s, Shan prefers subjects that are socio-political in tone.
Since the beginning of this year, Gallery Kunstbroeders has been representing this creative artist who now has dozens of exhibitions at home and abroad to his credit. His use of color is warm and exciting, his brushwork thick, pasty and tangled. His subjects are abstract yet the paintings can also be called figurative because there are always people appearing in them. Paintings with high viewing and investment value.
