Kailiang Yang's urban landscapes seem deserted, most often rainy, and sometimes even off-putting - streets, bridges, facades - that the artist creates on his canvases in shades of grayish blues. In surfaces that are sometimes monochrome, interspersed with visible brushstrokes, sometimes watercolors, sketched plans, full of engravings of pencil lines, the artist transfers a German metropolis, more precisely his hometown, Hamburg, in melancholy atmospheres on canvas. Concentrated on the urban environment from which he moves away intellectually while transcending it through the filter of painting, Kailiang Yang is situated in the tradition of the flâneur who, in the 19th century, lingers through landscapes. and urban complexes - his distant perspective of the bustling activities of the city makes him a perpetual stranger.