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SONG DONG: A BLOT ON THE LANDSCAPE
October 30 — December 18, 2010
text source: Pace Beijing website - Press release
Pace Beijing is pleased to present an exhibition of Song Dong's recent works on October 30th. The solo exhibition, which will last until December18th 2010, is the latest exhibition of Song Dong after his successful solo show Waste Not at the Museum of Modern Art in New York last year.
As one of the most important conceptual artists in Chinese contemporary art fields. Song Dong's works combine a wide array of forms including performance, video, sculpture, and among others. Often drawn from everyday life, his works express his thinking on philosophical issues in a plain form that ordinary people can easily access. The new series on view, A blot on the landscape – Cut Stroke (Jian dao cun) , A blot on the landscape – Chop Stroke (Fu pi cun), A blot on the landscape – Wind and Water Stroke (Shui feng cun) and A blot on the landscape – Rain and Rice Stroke (Yu mi cun) are his latest video works. The "Eating Landscape" series constructed with food reflect his intervention and satire of traditional art. Song Dong's artworks always respond to secular culture, which evolves into an art form through the artist's performance. Works on the exhibition integrate the vulgarity of food with the elegance of landscape of Chinese literati tradition. In this way, material life is combined with spiritual pursuit in a sardonic manner, while the process reveals a kind of implicit and indescribable philosophy.
Song Dong was born in 1966 in Beijing and graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University in 1989. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Recently, Song Dong was included in the following exhibitions: China in Four Seasons: Song Dong + Yin Xiuzhen (2010) at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand; The 6th Liverpool Biennial (2010), Liverpool, England. Recently, his solo exhibition Waste Not travels to Vancouver and is currently on show in Vancouver Art Gallery.
October 30 — December 18, 2010
text source: Pace Beijing website - Press release
Pace Beijing is pleased to present an exhibition of Song Dong's recent works on October 30th. The solo exhibition, which will last until December18th 2010, is the latest exhibition of Song Dong after his successful solo show Waste Not at the Museum of Modern Art in New York last year.
As one of the most important conceptual artists in Chinese contemporary art fields. Song Dong's works combine a wide array of forms including performance, video, sculpture, and among others. Often drawn from everyday life, his works express his thinking on philosophical issues in a plain form that ordinary people can easily access. The new series on view, A blot on the landscape – Cut Stroke (Jian dao cun) , A blot on the landscape – Chop Stroke (Fu pi cun), A blot on the landscape – Wind and Water Stroke (Shui feng cun) and A blot on the landscape – Rain and Rice Stroke (Yu mi cun) are his latest video works. The "Eating Landscape" series constructed with food reflect his intervention and satire of traditional art. Song Dong's artworks always respond to secular culture, which evolves into an art form through the artist's performance. Works on the exhibition integrate the vulgarity of food with the elegance of landscape of Chinese literati tradition. In this way, material life is combined with spiritual pursuit in a sardonic manner, while the process reveals a kind of implicit and indescribable philosophy.
Song Dong was born in 1966 in Beijing and graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University in 1989. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Recently, Song Dong was included in the following exhibitions: China in Four Seasons: Song Dong + Yin Xiuzhen (2010) at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand; The 6th Liverpool Biennial (2010), Liverpool, England. Recently, his solo exhibition Waste Not travels to Vancouver and is currently on show in Vancouver Art Gallery.
artist Song Dong (left)
artist Sun Yuan
