Li Songsong:         Li Songsong, a young artist in the 70s has been in recent years investigating the relation between public images and their transposition onto canvas. In the shift to painting these pictures, which are mainly old photos related to historical characters and facts, he hasn’t protracted the cognitive style as for some previous artists’ practice of criticizing, exposing, questioning, or satirizing and propagandizing about a certain historical period, but has used a kind of imagery enacting an objective approach.

                             Li Songsong (b. 1973, Beijing) is widely considered one the most important painters of his generation. Since graduating from Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1996, Li's paintings - rendered with a lush impasto and often based on photographs of China's modern history - have been featured prominently in important group exhibitions throughout the world. Li Songsong - Hypnogenesis offers Beijing audiences a rare opportunity to see a powerful selection of Li's new, large-scale works.