121. LI SONGSONG
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Li Songsong
The Decameron 2004 Oil on canvas 170 x 210 cm |
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Li
Songsong
Gift 2003 Oil on canvas 180 x 300 cm (diptych) |
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This Is How We Talk Politics 2007 Oil on canvas (diptych) 210 X 210 cm 100 x 245 cm 160 X 260 cm Overall dimensions: 260 x 470 cm |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
1973 Born in Beijing
Nowadays:
Lives and works in Beijing
Studies:
He graduated
from the Subsidiary School of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in
1992 before going on to receive his BFA in oil painting from the Central
Academy of Fine Arts in 1996.
Themes and
style:
Themes
of politics, intimacy, remoteness, and
anxiety run throughout Li’s work. His scenes gain a haunting uncanniness not
from their place in social memory, but because of their intensely concentrated
surfaces. Treating his loaded source material as a void template, Li approaches
painting as a purely amoral intervention, a meditative engagement with the
possibilities of personal significance within an increasingly virtual world.
Techniques:
His work
is developed in paintings, mostly watercolours.
Exhibitions
Representative
Galleries:
Pace
Saatchi
IN
his own words:
“I
never think about what looks Chinese. I am first and foremost an artist. I
don’t look at what the international art scene concerns itself with or what
other artists do. The question I am concerned with is whether it is good art or
not good art.”
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more Information: