SONG DONG SOLO EXHIBITION AT GRONINGER MUSEUM

Song Dong, Life is Art, Art is Life

Song Dong (Beijing, 1966) is one of the most important internationally operating Chinese artists. At Documenta 2012, he was represented by the sculpture entitled Doing Nothing Garden, which consisted of a hill built up out of rubbish, covered with wild flowers, with a bench around it upon which people could simply sit and stare. Dong was educated in traditional fashion, but in 1989 he abruptly quit painting, to manifest himself again with performance, photography and video a few years later. He later expanded his work with installations such as Eating the City: miniature cities built of cake and sweets, which the public actually was allowed to eat.

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