Yang Xinguang, a Beijing-based artist born in Hunan province in 1980, is a graduate of the sculpture academy of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Through his participation in a series of group exhibitions across China, he has earned a reputation as one of the strongest exemplars of a reemerging sculptural sense among the younger generations of artists in China.

Occupying a unique role in the dialectic of contemporary art history, Yang Xinguang steps back from both descriptive work on everyday life and protest work in the realm of politics. Instead, his introspective works recall the discourses of both American minimalist sculpture in terms of their phenomenological relationship with the body of the spectator and arte povera in terms of their openness towards material and space. Yang Xinguang’s works often involve wood, earth, and stone as their primary materials. Despite the process-oriented nature of their production, the emphasis remains on a final, finished product (although one differentiated from a unitary