1. Song Dong is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installations, performance, photography and video.
15 Facts About Song Dong
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Song Dong has been involved in many solo and group exhibitions around the world, covering a range of themes and topics including his relationship with his family and their experience of living in modern China, the transformation of China's urban environment and the impermanence of change.
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Song Dong was born in Beijing in 1966 to a family that was once prosperous but was reduced to poverty by China's repeated upheavals.
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The younger Song was raised by his mother, Zhao Xiangyuan.
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Song Dong graduated in 1989 from the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University in Beijing, and slowly began painting in a less conventional manner following his 1992 Solo Exhibition 'Show of Oil Paintings' in Beijing's Culture Palace.
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Several of Song Dong's works have conveyed a theme of the impermanence of change, highlighting the way that although a single person could effect a minor change it could only have a fleeting impact.
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Song Dong subsequently visited Tibet, where he photographed himself striking the Lhasa River with an old-style Chinese seal.
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Song Dong repeated the same thing on a frozen lake in a Beijing park that made no impression on the existing sheet of ice.
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Song Dong highlighted China's dramatic transformation through a series of edible installations called Eating the City that were staged between 2003 and 2006 in Barcelona, Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Oxford and Shanghai.
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Song Dong has put on many solo shows around the world, including Projects 90, at the Museum of Modern Art in 2009 and A Blot in the Landscape at Pace Beijing in 2010.
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In 2012, Song Dong contributed to the dOCUMENTA exhibition at Kassel, Germany with his Do nothing garden.
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Song Dong believes that there is a generation gap between him and his father.
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Song Dong's father declined him whenever Song Dong request to touch his father.
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At that moment, Song Dong realized that his father sacrificed his dignity and authority as a father for his son's success and future.
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Song Dong's work has a sense of helplessness to change the nature and society that human has limited power to change the nature.