Born in 1989, Hongjie Yang is a Dutch artist who graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2015 with a Master's degree in Literary Pulse Design. Hongjie yang concocts an alternative aesthetic from a union of art, nature and science. In his latest furniture collection‘Synthesis Monolith’, the Chinese-born artist and designer explores the interrelation between the natural and the artificial by capturing the metamorphosis of materials within a single monolithic form.

Synthesis Monolith by Hongjie Yang investigates the transformative properties of metal, tracing in a single totemic object the primitive origins of aluminium and steel in ores through to their emergence as highly polished artificial materials. The experimental casting method combines ancient techniques with contemporary technology, expressed in the convergence of natural and machined surfaces. The reflective exterior brings the viewer’s living presence into the sculpture’s aesthetic and form, seeking to evoke a state of contemplation.

Hongjie Yang's practice explores the power of transformation by bringing in wide range of disciplines into the world of art, design and technology. Venturing into parallel universes, the designer-artist based in the Netherlands blends fact and fiction, the familiar and uncanny to speak the increasingly fluid times we live in. What emerge from his journeys are otherworldly objects that liquify our dualitoes of existence to offer glimpses of liberating possibilities.