Triangle Gallery is pleased to announce Being and Time, a new personal exhibition of works by Yirui Fang (b.1997 in China, lives and works between China and Italy). This is the second personal exhibition of the artist with the gallery.
Opening reception September, 2 at 19:00. Through October 17, 2025.

Yirui Fang’s new body of works explores the intersection of Eastern and Western visual traditions and contemporary philosophical thought, using abstract painting as the primary vehicle for conceptual practice. He integrates the epic imagery of Greek mythology, the atmospheric qualities of Chinese ink painting, and the abstracted lines of calligraphy. White lines traverse the canvas, creating rhythm and tension, while floating, bubble-like forms symbolize the ephemerality and fragility of all things. These elements reflect the abstract qualities of calligraphy and resonate with Martin Heidegger’s notion of the temporality of Being in Being and Time (Sein und Zeit), where existence is always in motion, situated in time and the world, and never fixed.

Fang rejects direct narrative, transforming divine punishment, world collapse, and human distortion into abstract forms and shifting planes of light. As Karl Jaspers describes in Philosophy through the concept of “limit situations” (Grenzsituationen), crisis, mortality, and responsibility define human existence; the abstract forms and floating bubbles in Fang’s work embody humanity’s vulnerability and powerlessness in the face of ecological and social crises.

Twilight tones and layers of transparent, bubble-like forms create a space of both calm and latent danger, echoing Milan Kundera’s meditation on “lightness and weight” in The Unbearable Lightness of Being: life’s fleeting lightness is often unbearable, while each perception, choice, and responsibility confers a unique weight to existence. The tension between scale, order and chaos, light and shadow allows viewers to experience the epic resonance of myth in a non-narrative abstract field, reflecting on human responsibility toward nature, society, and cultural order.

Through the fusion of abstract calligraphic lines, transparent bubbles, and mythological imagery, Yirui Fang’s work functions as both an aesthetic experiment and a philosophical practice. It establishes possibilities for perception between the real and the virtual, the grand and the subtle, the orderly and the chaotic, inviting viewers to reconsider their relationship to the world and the fragile balance of human and ecological existence.