Pace presents History Painting, featuring Li Songsong’s new works exploring history as substance and inspiration. Using reliefs, bold brushstrokes, and solid color blocks, Li abstracts images from media and personal memory, creating fragmented, semi-abstract compositions. Entirely square and abstract, the new paintings use grids and color to convey his evolving relationship to painting, emphasizing brushstrokes as enduring, idiosyncratic marks that construct historical metaphors.
