Guangzhou Daily News (all media reporter Li Qiaorong) Recently, "Transfiguration - Xue Song Art Exhibition" was held at Guangdong Museum of Art. The exhibition will last until April 20.
Xue Song is an artist with a very personal style.
Especially in the past ten years, he has become a high-profile phenomenon-level artist in the field of Chinese contemporary painting by virtue of his profound understanding and skillful integration of traditional Chinese culture and the spirit of Western modern art, as well as his innovation in the form of painting and his strong creativity. .
It is reported that from studying at the Shanghai Theater Academy in the 1980s to working in Shanghai, Xue Song's creations have almost kept pace with the development of Chinese contemporary art.
Xue Song's work begins with collage, organically incorporating international pop art styles into his representations of contemporary Chinese life.
The theme of this exhibition "Transfiguration" not only refers to the artist's creative method from "deconstruction to reconstruction", but also aims to present the dynamic connection between the social transformation of the times and the artistic transformation through a review of the artist's image production process.
The works on display are gorgeous in color, and there is no lack of comfort and tranquility. The combination with the traditional cultural scene is dignified and solemn, giving the exquisite expression of contemporary art.
In his creation, Xue Song juxtaposes images with each other, conveying his ability to control materials and pictures; recombining materials, expressing a three-dimensional story in a two-dimensional space, and constructing a space with a story in a new form.
For him, the sparks sparked by the continuous collision of different cultures are bound to create new ways of dialogue and contexts that advance understanding.
Because of this, it can be seen in his paintings that whether it is traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting symbols, or Western cultural symbols, or even various symbols of current daily life, they will achieve unprecedented in a state of mutual penetration and integration full of tension. artistic conception.
Wang Shaoqiang, director of Guangdong Museum of Art, said that Xue Song's creations allow us to see a series of diverse and fragmented worlds composed of collages, which form a multi-dimensional image nesting: modern urban landscapes, Western classical oil paintings, Song Dynasty Yuan Shanshui, contemporary fashion advertisements, classical Western music scores, calligraphy copybooks, folk embroidery... They show the changes of the times in a contemporary way.