Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (2019)

Yahon Chang contributed several works to an event held annually in Tuscany, Italy, Art of the Treasure Hunt. At the exhibition’s opening, in Palazzo Strozzi, Chang created a major performance-installation, writing with an outsize brush on stretches of canvas, felts, and paper on the floor. While in the exhibition at Castello Brolio, the hanging fabric called to mind traditional Chinese hanging scroll paintings, the size and dynamism of both Chang’s expressive calligraphy, which wafted gently in response to the pressure of Chang’s brush, made a statement of Chinese ink painting as a living, growing art. Elsewhere, Chang exhibited an installation constructed from a variety of different-sized calligraphies demonstrating different script styles; the overlapping presentation served to reveal or obscure different segments. The installation made clear the strength of calligraphy, appreciated for its abstract compositional value.
— Britta Erickson

*Yahon Chang performed on June 27, 2019, in the atriums above the exhibition Verrocchio: Master of Leonardo in the presence of work by Leonardo da Vinci.