"Song Dong: An Exhibition at tablet"
2000-06-30 until 0000-00-00
Institute of International Visual Arts
London, , UK

Based in Beijing, Song Dong is one of a generation of Chinese artists that has come to the attention of the international art world in recent years. A performance and installation artist, Song Dong's early work is characteristic of what the art critic Gao Minglu describes as 'apartment art' - a practice that has emerged from an environment of limited resources and little recognition by commercial and official galleries. Song Dong's video installations project compelling and meditative images onto the surface of the exterior world, while his performances (often sited outdoors) comment upon the transience of human endeavour. During the course of a four-month residency at the Gasworks Artists' Studios beginning in April, the artist will be making and exhibiting new works at the Tablet gallery at the Tabernacle.

Song Dong graduated from the Normal University in Beijing in 1989 and has exhibited in China, Europe, USA and Japan. Last year his work was included in Inside Out: New Chinese Art (PS1 and Asia Society Galleries, New York and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) and Transience: Chinese Art at the end of the Twentieth Century (The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago).

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Song Dong

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