'Pixel analysis': Pushing the boundary of visual art

One of Yang Hongwei's works is shown at the exhibition. The work is made of metal square units - "pixels" that construct the image of a Buddha using the light reflections. When standing from a distance and at a different angel, viewers will see different visual effects. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

"Yang's work is one of the very few art creations that impressed and shocked me in recent years," said famous Chinese artist Xu Bing. He stressed that Yang's work had reached the depth of the "Metalanguage" of fine art.

"It's a 'gene pool', instead of a 'tool'" Xu said. ”It is like creating new grammar out of the old language." Regeneration and reproduction is the core of printing, which is fully demonstrated in Yang's works. Xu explained that Yang maximized the very basic elements of prints and made use of them, which is the gene of print art.