XUE SONG 薛松 (Chinese, b. 1965)

XUE SONG 薛松 (Chinese, b. 1965)

March on 前進

2006

Mixed media on canvas

Signed lower right, inscribed to verso with title in Chinese, artist name in both Chinese and pinyin, together with the date and measurements

150 x 120cm

薛松 前進

2006年作

壓克力畫布

款式：薛松於畫布右下

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Born in 1965 in Anhui, China, Xue Song graduated from the Shanghai Theatre Academy's Department of Stage Design in 1988. He quickly became one of the key figures in the Chinese Pop Art movement and a representative of the "New Shanghai School". Xue Song's art is a fusion of East and West, reality and historical memory, and traditional culture and contemporary perspectives.

During the 1980s, a time of rapid transformation and modernization in China, Xue Song was inspired by Pop Art and began experimenting with collage techniques, influenced by the works of Robert Rauschenberg. His early works were primarily abstract and expressionist in style. However, in 1991, a studio fire accident transformed Xue Song's artistic career. Fire and collage became his signature techniques, using ashes and flames to create images that address broader societal, political, traditional, humanistic, and aesthetic issues. His paintings explore the paradox between microscopic and macroscopic, form and content, and deconstruct and reconstruct the essence of painting itself.

At the turn of the 21st century, Xue Song returned to his abstract roots, creating works that remained deeply expressive in philosophy, poetry, reasoning, and emotion, while exploring geometric and calligraphic abstraction.

Xue Song's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at prestigious institutions such as the Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai's Long Museum, Shanghai's Powerlong Art Museum, Xi'an Art Museum, Singapore's Museum of Contemporary Arts, and Tokyo's Ueno Royal Museum. His paintings are part of important collections, including the National Art Museum of China, Shanghai Art Museum, Hong Kong's M+, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Bonn Museum of Modern Art, Switzerland, the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, the Uli Sigg Collection, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Fondation Cartier, Coca-Cola's Asia Pacific headquarters, JP Morgan's Asia Pacific headquarters, UBS, and MGM Cotai.