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Upcoming | Xue Song: Pheonix Art from the Ashes

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 Exhibition 

Xue Song: Pheonix Art from the Ashes


 Curator 

Jeffrey John Spalding


 Duration 

18th May,2019—14th July,2019


 Venue 

Long Museum (West Bund) Gallery 1

No. 3398, Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China




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About the exhibition

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From 18th May to 14th July,2019, Long Museum (West Bund) will launch a large-scale solo exhibition "Pheonix Art from the Ashes" by artist Xue Song. The exhibition is curated by Jeffrey John Spalding, presenting the Xue Song's artistic creation spanning more than 30 years.  The exhibited works include Xue Song's early attempts to collage the inscriptions, and works artist keeps developing and reshaping development and reshaping "Dialogue with masters series", "History and reality series", " City and youth series ", “Traditional landscape series”, "Foam Series" etc.



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Xue Song, Structural calligraphy, Acrylic on canvas, collage, mixed media, 168×168cm×6, 2018



In order to match the large space of the main exhibition hall of Long Museum (West Bund), this exhibition will present the latest work of Xue Song, “Gene genealogy”. This large-scale creation consists of 100 small works, each of them is a Chinese surname, which together spell out a map of China. From his earliest art student days, he has been enamoured by the form of written text. In the western world ‘penmanship’ is a topic of the long-forgotten past, typewriters, computers and now voice messaging translators have all but eradicated the handiwork of handwriting. Xue Song holds on. He loves the formal appearance of hand-written text in all its forms: ancient and current. It is the leitmotif to his art.



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Xue Song, Calligraphy Imagery, Acrylic on canvas, collage, mixed media, 168×168cm×2, 2019



The rich historical and cultural images recorded in books, publications, newspapers, etc. are ingeniously burned and collaged to create works with regional characteristics. It is a new creative direction of Xue Song. The exhibition will also present a group of "Shanghai Postcards" (8 spells). Xue Song has lived and worked in Shanghai for more than 30 years and is full of affection for the city. Through this group of works, the audience will see a group of vivid and rich "Shanghai style map" of the era and historical culture.


Xue Song’s art is a kind of rebirth, he attempts to re-make art from its abandoned ruins to form something new, fresh, individual and deeply personal. Their art offers an emblem of a contrived ritualistic scorched earth policy. The studio fires in early 90s consumed some of the works of Xue Song. These initial fires and ongoing ritual cleansings and burnings of art history texts have created raw material, when mixed with painting medium to produce the black lines that outline his work.



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Xue Song, Oracle Imagery, Acrylic on canvas, collage, mixed media, 168×168cm×10, 2019


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Xue Song, Oracle Imagery  (detail), Acrylic on canvas, collage, mixed media, 168×168cm×10, 2019



Xue Song is knowledgeable and appreciative of the centuries-old distinguished painters and calligraphers of China and Asia. He was among the first wave of Chinese artists to embrace the quixotic, complex weave of 19th and 20th Century western modernism. The work of Xue Song ransacks art history, shamelessly quoting, appropriating and overpainting images from a glorious legacy. He proffers the re-birth of art and himself by admixing western and Asian art history into a palpable paste.


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Xue Song, Four seasons - spring summer autumn winter, Acrylic on canvas, collage, mixed media, 250×100cm×4, 2018


Upcoming | Xue Song: Pheonix Art from the Ashes,Upcoming,Song,July,than,the,States,May,Gallery,exhibitionFrom,fresh

Xue Song, Spring, Acrylic on canvas, collage, mixed media, 250×100cm×4, 2018


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Xue Song, Foam, Acrylic on canvas, collage, mixed media, 150×150cm×3, 2018


Xue Song, Foam (detail), Acrylic on canvas, c

Xue Song, Foam (detail), Acrylic on canvas, collage, mixed media, 150×150cm×3, 2018


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Xue Song, Dialogue with Piet Mondrian - gain new insights through reviewing old material, Acrylic on canvas, collage, mixed media, 200×200cm, 2012-2019



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About the artist

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Xue Song known as a contemporary artist with Chinese "cultural pop", is also an important representative of "New Shanghai School Art". He was born in 1965 in Dangshan, Anhui Province. Graduated from the Department of Dance, Shanghai Academy of Drama. Now he lives in Shanghai. 


In 1990, a fire destroyed all the original images and forms around the artist, but pushed open a new art door. From destruction to rebirth, like a reincarnation. After the artist barbecued the ready-made pictures and texts, deconstructed, constructed and reorganized them on the canvas, the images in the works also experienced a process of regeneration. It is released from the original sense, given a new understanding, linking the East and the West, historical memory and the current reality, traditional culture and modern views, forming a unique Xue Song style. 


Xue Song's works are collected by Boston Art Museum, University of Southern California Asia Pacific Museum, Bonn Museum of Modern Art, China Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Long Museum, Hong Kong M+ Art Museum, Bill Gates Art Foundation and other institutions.



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About the curator

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Jeffrey John Spalding,curator, educator, museum expert, curator. He is currently a member of the International Association of Art critics. He has served as curator and chief curator of the Appleton Museum of Art at the University of Florida in the United States and taught at the State University (1999-2002) and the Beaverbrook Museum of Art in Canada (2015-2017). As curator of the Museum of Art at the University of Lethbridge, Jeffrey reviewed and screened donations from various sources and completed a major collection of works of art, from 212 in 1982 to 15000 in 1999. 


Jeffrey organizes and plans more than a hundred art events, including art galleries and museums in the United States and Canada. Among them: Calgary’s Art week/ Art Walk Festivals; Art97 and Art98 International Art Exposition and Fair,Vancouver;,Toronto International Art Fair 2000, Matisse and Inuit faces, ABC (United States, United Kingdom, Canada) pop art, pop art and its legends. etc. Jeffrey has written a number of other articles and was awarded the Diamond Jubilee Medal of Queen Elizabeth II in 2012 for his outstanding contributions in the field of art.


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