Li songsong biography

Li Songsong’s paintings are imposing, strong and abstract, yet they are also images of group portraits, social activities and political scenes.

He takes his subject matter from photographs in the media, looking back over the past century of Chinese history. I met Li at Pace London gallery and he told me a little bit more about the works.

Li’s technique and process is primary to his subject matter.

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Addressing his paintings in the gallery, each piece seems so abstracted and fragmented that genre can be ignored for a while. The earthy and cool colour selections of blues, greens, browns and pinks are refined further by dashes of white and an underlying presence of black.

This scheme unites the pieces in the exhibition, creating a distinctly meditative mood. The palette is reminiscent of the sombre tones of the French Realists, such as Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet, artists who were hugely influential in China in the mid-20th centur