Song Yongping 2009-07-11
Song Yongping's Studio,
Beijing
“Actually, from childhood up through college graduation, our generation of artists had a deep bond with painting. Our first understanding of art was just painting. We didn’t have today’s breadth of or openness towards materials and information. So to us, we feel a certain familiarity with painting. Although we dabbled in performance art and installations, and got involved in some big events, ultimately we still feel closest to painting. So when things calmed down, we started to think about painting again. I’ve always thought that the most important thing is truthfulness, a person’s true feelings. It doesn’t matter what kind of medium you use to execute your work, the most important thing is expressing a kind of truthfulness.”
Biography:
Song Yongping (b. 1961, Taiyuan, Shanxi) is an artist who works with a variety of media including photography, painting and performance.
Song graduated from the Painting Department at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 1983. In 1985, he organized the ‘Seven Persons Modern Art Exhibition’ in Shanxi, and in the following year, the ‘Modern Ceramics’ exhibition and ‘Art Events in the Village’. In 1986, Song partnered with China Central Television (CCTV) to film art activities in Shanxi for a proposed television program about New Wave Art. He also exhibited at the ‘China/Avant-Garde Exhibition’ held at the National Art Museum of China (Beijing, 1989).
Song currently works in Beijing and exhibits widely.
