Song Kun
dal 5/6/2007 al 15/9/2007
Segnalato da
5/6/2007
Song Kun
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
On view a selection of works from a series of 365: creating one painting a day for an entire year, the artist has examined the minutiae of daily existence rendering a collection on canvas of the concerns, fears, desires, and confusion experienced by her and the newly emerging generation in China.
Solo show
Beijing-based artist Song Kun's painting series It's My Life (2005–06) examines the minutiae of daily existence. For an entire year she created one painting a day, rendering a collection on canvas of the concerns, fears, desires, and confusion experienced by her and the newly emerging generation in China.
Influences from Chinese landscape painting, animé, and traditional still life by European masters are suggested in the work. Song Kun offers viewers a portal into her inner life through elliptical narratives and moody moments rendered with a lush, sometimes despondent beauty. For her first solo exhibition in the US, this Hammer Projects installation features a selection of paintings from the entire series of three hundred and sixty-five.
Artist's bio
Song Kun was born in Inner Mongolia in 1977 and lives in Beijing. In 2002 she graduated with a degree in oil painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. Her installation It's My Life was the subject of a solo exhibition in 2006 at Universlastudios-Beijing. Recent group exhibitions include those at Chambers Fine Art Gallery, New York; C5 Gallery, Beijing; Paul Ricard Gallery, Paris; and Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore. In 2005 she participated in the Chinese Art Triennial at the Nanjing Art Museum, where she was recognized as the "most promising young female artist." Song Kun's work was recently reviewed in Artforum. This is the artist's first exhibition at an American museum.
UCLA Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard - Los Angeles