YANG Dawei

BIOGRAPHY

Yang Dawei expresses his enthusiasm towards puppet that is implausible. "Puppet" is a special symbol in his paintings. Those puppets express the personal point of view of the artist towards living. They won't get involved into numerous and complicated reality; they don't have action and voice. They represent the passively self-communion. Being a puppet, they only sit, listen and shout.

Yang is seeking for an artistic world like "Puppet art space" for past 20 years; he states his creative concept as "Puppet Art (玩偶主義)". He extends the meaning of the Chinese character "偶 (sounds OU and means PUPPET)" to: puppet, idol, contingency and things happened by chance; all these elements appear in his paintings. In addition, the Chinese character "玩 (sounds WAN and means PLAY)" is to feel all the little details of living by the optimistic or playful attitude. Thus, Yang Dawei faces his life with playful attitude rather than withdraws from the society pessimistically.