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Daniel Kaniess and Yang Yang at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) and the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) present a double exhibition with new work by Minnesota artists Daniel Kaniess and Yang Yang. Opening April 7, "Energy Palimpsest" and "The 3rd Megaton" feature gestural recycled mixed-media pieces by Kaniess and figurative paintings and drawings by Yang Yang, including a twenty-eight-foot mural. Though Kaniess and Yang grew up in different cultures and have evolved distinctly different bodies of work, both study the perceptual constraints of culture and make art that provokes a rethinking of what we perceive and what we understand about our place in the world.
Kaniess and Yang began their creative inquiries at opposite ends of the earth, Kaniess in rural Wisconsin and Yang in Jiangxi province, China. Kaniess left the countryside to study art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he earned a B.F.A., and moved to Minneapolis in 1979. Since then, he has been an active player in the Twin Cities music and art scene. Yang was already trained as a teacher when he left China...