Biography

LU Song  (b. 1982) graduated from Wimbledon College of Art, University of London in 2006 with a Master's Degree in Painting, and returned to China the following year, where he currently lives and works in Beijing. The artist is enthusiastic about adding literary sensibilities and montage-like textures to his paintings, mapping out the perception of light in the massive colouration of great somberness, embodied with the confrontation against narrative and the obsession with autobiographical memory.

 

His recent solo exhibitions include "Empty Space. The light beyond the shadow" (Massimo De Carlo Pièce Unique, Paris, 2023), "Japanese Garden" (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2021), "PURPLE SKIN" (Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong, 2021), "Interni Romani/Roman Interiors" (Mattatoio, Roma, 2018), "Combe" (Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong, 2018), "The Room Upstairs" (Massimo De Carlo, London, 2018), "Flow" (OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, 2017), "Control Point" (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2017), "The Drunken Beggar on Horseback" (Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania, 2015), "Hills Beyond the Backdrop" (Alexandre Ochs Galleries, Berlin, 2014), "To the River till Sunrise" (Dominik Mersch Gallery, Waterloo/Sydney, Australia, 2013), "To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent" (Alexandre Ochs Galleries, Berlin, 2012). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions such as "Tales of the South" (He Art Museum, Foshan, 2023), "A Theatre of Waiting" (The Cloud Collection, Nanjing, 2023), "Un dialogue avec la sensibilité — Écriture, Désir, Amour" (Being Art Museum, Shanghai, 2022), "2022 Beijing Biennial" (Beijing, 2022) and "In Memory of a Landscape 2" (James Cohen Gallery, Shanghai, 2015), amongst others.

Works
  • Foliage 4 叶子4
    LU Song 吕松
    Foliage 4 叶子4, 2017
    Acrylic on Canvas 布面丙烯
    60 × 50 cm

  • Shadow portrait 12 影 12
    LU Song 吕松
    Shadow portrait 12 影 12, 2019
    Acrylic on Canvas 布面丙烯
    200 x 150 cm
  • House of Green #3 绿色之家 #3
    LU Song 吕松
    House of Green #3 绿色之家 #3, 2020
    Acrylic on Canvas 布面丙烯
    200 x 150 cm
  • Japanese Garden #20 日本花园 #20
    LU Song 吕松
    Japanese Garden #20 日本花园 #20, 2020
    Acrylic on Canvas 布面丙烯
    60 × 50 cm
  • Amos Temple-11 阿摩斯神殿-11
    LU Song 吕松
    Amos Temple-11 阿摩斯神殿-11, 2021
    Acrylic on canvas 布面丙烯
    120 × 90 cm
  • Amos Temple-3 阿摩斯神殿-3
    LU Song 吕松
    Amos Temple-3 阿摩斯神殿-3, 2021
    Acrylic on canvas 布面丙烯
    200 × 150 cm
  • Amos Temple-9 阿摩斯神殿-9
    LU Song 吕松
    Amos Temple-9 阿摩斯神殿-9, 2021
    Acrylic on canvas 布面丙烯
    120 × 90 cm
  • Mimoid #12 模仿体 #12
    LU Song 吕松
    Mimoid #12 模仿体 #12, 2022
    Acrylic on Canvas 布面丙烯
    120 x 90 cm
  • Mimoid #14 模仿体 #14
    LU Song 吕松
    Mimoid #14 模仿体 #14, 2022
    Acrylic on Canvas 布面丙烯
    50 x 60 cm
  • Theater #12 剧场 #12
    LU Song 吕松
    Theater #12 剧场 #12, 2022
    Acrylic on canvas 布面丙烯
    120× 90 cm
  • Theater 剧场 The Theater series is inspired by Robert Wilson's theatre "[Theatre] is an architectural construction in time and space." LU Song superimposes and combines images in an architectural structure, moving between the figurative and the abstract. Plants, figures, geometric forms, and spaces are interlaced and juxtaposed; the work explores the uncertainty of image production, searching for and feeling the strange pleasure of visual fragments and conveying a complex sensory experience in deconstructing and reconstructing images. Among them are landscape and expression, two layers of unrelated images that produce a peculiar visual experience through superimposition, like adding an indication to a landscape or using landscape as an adjective to modify a face. 剧场系列作品受启于罗伯特威尔逊的舞台剧场“(戏剧)是时间和空间里的建筑构造。”吕松将画面按建筑结构般叠加、组合,游移于具象与抽象之间。植物、人物、几何形体、空间交错并置,作品探索着画面生成的不确定性,寻找并感受着视觉碎片带来的奇特快感,在图像的解构与重构中传递一种复杂的官能体验。其中风景与表情,两层毫不相干的画面通过叠加产生了奇特的视觉体验,它们就像给风景加上一个表情,或者用风景作为形容词修饰一张脸。
    LU Song 吕松
    Theater #13 剧场 #13, 2022
    Acrylic on Canvas 布面丙烯
    200 x 150 cm
  • Theater #8 剧场 #8
    LU Song 吕松
    Theater #8 剧场 #8, 2022
    Acrylic on canvas 布面丙烯
    120× 90 cm
  • Dance of Trees #16 树舞 #16
    LU Song 吕松
    Dance of Trees #16 树舞 #16, 2023
    Acrylic on canvas 布面丙烯
    200 × 150 cm
  • Dance of Trees #3 树舞 #3
    LU Song 吕松
    Dance of Trees #3 树舞 #3, 2023
    Acrylic on canvas 布面丙烯
    200 × 150 cm
  • Dance of Trees #7 树舞 #7
    LU Song 吕松
    Dance of Trees #7 树舞 #7, 2023
    Acrylic on canvas 布面丙烯
    120 × 90 cm
  • Maroon Hugger #1 栗色怀抱 #1
    LU Song 吕松
    Maroon Hugger #1 栗色怀抱 #1, 2023
    Acrylic on canvas 布面丙烯
    200 × 150 cm
  • Maroon Hugger #2 栗色怀抱 #2
    LU Song 吕松
    Maroon Hugger #2 栗色怀抱 #2, 2023
    Acrylic on canvas 布面丙烯
    200 × 150 cm
  • Wild Sparks 野火
    LU Song 吕松
    Wild Sparks 野火, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas 布面丙烯
    120 × 90 cm
  • Foliage 3 叶子3
    LU Song 吕松
    Foliage 3 叶子3, 2017
    Acrylic on Canvas 布面丙烯
    60 x 50 cm
  • Jungle Boy 丛林男孩
    LU Song 吕松
    Jungle Boy 丛林男孩, 2016
    Acrylic on Canvas 布面丙烯
    200 x 150 cm
  • Living off the Grid 隐居
    LU Song 吕松
    Living off the Grid 隐居, 2016
    Acrylic on Canvas 布面丙烯
    150 x 100 cm
  • Shadow portrait 10 影 10
    LU Song 吕松
    Shadow portrait 10 影 10, 2019
    Acrylic on Canvas 布面丙烯
    200 x 150 cm
  • Stay 停留
    LU Song 吕松
    Stay 停留, 2017
    Acrylic on Canvas 布面丙烯
    200 x 150 cm
  • Theater #14 剧场 #14
    LU Song 吕松
    Theater #14 剧场 #14, 2022
    Acrylic on Canvas 布面丙烯
    200 x 150 cm
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  • Wild Sparks 野火
    LU Song 吕松
    Wild Sparks 野火, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas 布面丙烯
    120 × 90 cm