News | LU Song's participation in "Tales of the South" at He Art Museum, Foshan

Don Gallery is pleased to announce the participation of artist LU Song in the group exhibition "Tales of the South" at He Art Museum, presenting a group of works entitled "Amos’s Temple". The exhibition aims to explore the impact of changing contexts, institutional reforms, media shifts, and the rise and fall of institutions on the South art, which also reorganises the development of South art over the past 150 years, focusing on the ambiguous, controversial and confrontational aspects of South art, and presenting a picture of the South art in the midst of continuous fluctuations.

LU Song's "Amos’s Temple" series consists of twelve paintings, divided into three groups according to different stages of creation. The top two paintings were completed during the artist's residency in Sanya, Hainan; the middle two paintings are an extension of the theme and were completed in his Beijing studio; the left, right and bottom eight paintings attempt to escape from the constraints of the theme and the text, and to think and imagine about the current situation from the artist's own experience. The overall arrangement of the three groups of works creates a sense of architecture that echoes the descriptions of the rooms in Tokarczuk's novels, and at the same time responds to the author's typical "constellation novel" style, in which fragmented but related short stories are used to create a complex and varied narrative.