Pictures from magazines, film clips, photographs of historical events; all images from the public realm, form the source of his work. Li Songsong is an artist who records moments of recent Chinese history in a dispassionate manner that is countered by the way in which he manipulates the painted surface with a vigorous impasto of paint marks on aluminum panels. He chooses historical scenes and events that range from the time of China’s revolutionary war to the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Li Songsong is concerned with the intrinsic humanity that underpins all the images he appropriates and the memories they have the potential to bring to mind in his audience.