簡介
gdm presents the first solo exhibition of Tang Chang's landscape works in Hong Kong, from 4 June to 29 August 2026.
Curated by art historian Sheryl Gwee, “Into the Heart-Mind 心鏡之景” highlights Tang Chang's works on paper spanning the 1960s to the 1980s.
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Tang Chang (1934–1990), also known as Chang Sae‑tang (จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง), was a self‑taught Thai‑Chinese artist and poet who shattered the conventions of Thai modernism. Born into Bangkok's Chinese diaspora, his education was cut short by war, yet this rupture became the ground for radical independence. Without institutional training, he forged a practice that fused calligraphy, abstraction, and poetry into a language of defiance and reflection, painting with his body—fingers, hands, and gestures pressed directly into canvas—to transform ink into rhythm, urgency, and spiritual search.
