Ho Kan integrates Eastern calligraphy and the art of seal carving with a minimalist yet poetic visual language to develop his distinctive, Eastern lyrical abstraction. He starts with elemental points, and, from them, he creates his own philosophy about the arrangement of the image, validating the existence of each element.
With his abstract oeuvre Ho Kan has seamlessly straddled different cultures—Eastern and Western. Active since the 1950s, Ho Kan experienced the burgeoning avant-garde scene of postwar Taiwan, making work that was initially inspired by Surrealism. In 1964, he left Taipei for Europe and settled in Milan, where he developed a more starkly abstract style of painting, which continues to be his primary focus. In 2024, Ho Kan returns to his hometown Nanjing, China, along with a large retrospective of h
A conversation with Ho Kan