“When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.(…) When a beautiful rose dies beauty does not die because it is not really in the rose. It is a mental and emotional response that we make.”

This quotation of Agnes Martin in 1989 could be the question raised by the painting of Hamburg-based Chinese artist Kailiang Yang.

In his fourth personal exhibition at carlier | gebauer Kailiang Yang seems to reach an epic in terms of minimality of the brush and sophistication of the description of the space with this new serie of oil paintings – composed of light, of luminosity. His painting is a highly personal one; solitary, the artist half-opens a space for dialogue with his own memories and impressions where spiritual and artistic experiences are inseparably intertwined.