Catalogue of solo exhibition by Yang Jiechang at Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art in 2008. Hou Hanru wrote, 'Yang Jiechang is probably the most unpredictable and chaotic artists in his generation. For the last thirty years, he has constructed an immense body of work. It covers a large span of media and languages from ink-wash painting, Chinese calligraphy, drawing, photography, installation, performance, sound, music, multimedia to simply everyday actions while the formats vary from huge and oversized to tiny and quasi immaterial. However, he has never tightened himself to any fixed and established style, norm and issue. Instead, he always reacts to the given context and momentum of each events in which he participates and produces new concepts and forms to put forward his systematically critical, provocative and even subversive thoughts and expressions. He simply comes up with a new surprise every time.' 

'No-Shadow Kick' is the title Yang Jiechang chose for his solo exhibition in Shanghai. It is a martial arts technique that connect the aesthetic with the potential to act and identifies the individual as the agent and centre for creative transformation. In the catalogue, according to Martina Koeppel-Yang, the philosophical, aesthetic and strategic aspects of No-Shadow Kick are evident. Drawings, calligraphies, monumental ink paintings, objects, installations, performances and meticulous colour paintings alternate and trace the artist's practice, from reflection and creation to participation. The images evoke the range of subjects touched upon: from the aesthetic to the historical, from the spiritual to the political.

Yang's biography is provided in the catalogue