Not only a painter, Chiang wears many hats: as a multi-creator, digital art curator, and designer, suggesting a literal “omnidirectional artistic creation”. While familiar with traditional Chinese arts such as calligraphy and ink painting, his Western upbringing has led to his creational core in “the intersecting of East and West” naturally. In the art of Chiang, expressionistic techniques of inscribing fragments of multiple realities and the Eastern aesthetic of “marginality” coexist symbiotically. The art is complete only when the viewer’s imagination brings the work in contributing to Chiang’s creative act. His choice of animals is a key motif to express his beliefs that they are the most qualified to represent human beings without any boundaries. By making full use of radical approaches, he incorporates animals into an exquisite intermixture of poetry, calligraphy, and painting. His works provide a three-dimensional aspect as his animals are “carved out” and coming to life.

For this exhibition, Chiang looks back on his life, in a “succession of encounters between East and West”, choosing two key motifs: the dragon and unicorn－the former symbolizing East, the latter, the West. Both creatures exist only in the imagination but, embody the incarnate cultural characteristics of both worlds. The artist never ceases to pursue the endless romanticism which emerges only from the amalgam of both.

The ‘East and West’ that have nurtured the artist’s innermost being, are reborn under the contemporary vocabulary. We cordially invite you to experience the intensity and vivid metamorphosis portrayed by Demos Chiang.