ASIA NOW 2025
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ASIA NOW 2025
Shen Han, Qi Zhuo, Yang Yongliang
OCT 22nd—26th, 2025
Booth H01
Monnaie de paris, paris
For this year’s participation at Asia Now, PARIS-B is delighted to present works by three Chinese artists:
SHEN HAN, QI ZHUO and YANG YONGLIANG.
Their works together explore memory, perception, and the shifting dialogue between tradition and modernity.
Shen Han investigates the relation between painting and the body. His abstract canvases begin with gesture rather than subject, allowing form to emerge through line and colour. As he paints, chance images appear and connect with subconscious memory, turning the process into a dialogue between perception, material, and the human psyche.
Shen Han was born in 1988 in Hangzhou, China. He graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts in 2017 with a Master’s degree in Fine Arts. He was an exchange student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he now lives and works between Berlin and Hangzhou.
Qi Zhuo “restores” replicas of Buddhist statues from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (907–960 AD) inside fragile glass bubbles. These ghostly fragments embody the cyclical rise and fall of religious icons and the violence of cultural displacements. His “false restorations” replace missing parts with irrelevant materials, creating spectral objects that question time, space, and authenticity.
Qi Zhuo, Bubble Game #67, 2024, Stone sculpture and blown glass, 42 x 18 x 18 cm
Qi Zhuo was born in 1985 in Fuxin (Liaoning province, China). He graduated with honors from the Le Mans Higher School of Fine Arts (the DNSEP Diploma), did the post graduate program KAOLIN of the ENSA Limoges in France and the Geneva University of Art and Design in Switzerland, he has been working and living in France since 2008. He did a residency at the Fondation Martell in Cognac, France at the end of 2020.
Yang Yongliang, inspired by Shan Shui, constructs digital photographs that at first recall landscapes but reveal themselves as urban environments in flux. The iconic Moonlight series are futuristic representations of our megalopolises achieving a stunning urban sprawl. Lit up by light boxes, they plunge us in a dreamlike (or nightmare’s) dimension. Yang Yongliang subtly suggests a possible agreement between tradition and modernity, nature and culture.
Yang Yongliang is a Shanghai-born artist living in New York. Raised in the 1980s in Old Town Jiading, he studied Chinese painting since childhood. In the early 2000s, he graduated from China Academy of Art and began experimenting in multidisciplinary art. Yang’s digital Chinese landscapes have redefined traditional landscape paintings, featuring a massive amount of urban images reconstructed and recomposed. Poetic and quaint as it appears to be when seen from a distance, it unfolds a fable of modern civilization upon closer inspection. His works have been exhibited internationally and collected by public institutions worldwide, including Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the British Museum in London, Paris Museum of Modern Art and National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.