Massimo De Carlo is pleased to announce Purple Skin, the third exhibition of Chinese artist Lu Song with the gallery.

Lu Song’s interest and artistic inspiration derives from imaginary places and poetic environments: from his early works depicting dark green leaves – a glimpse of jungle foliage, water and flowers – to hismost recent magnification of powerful purple flowers the artist reflects upon the power of nature and the means of absorbing and returning it.

While Lu’s painterly techniques have evolved in the past few years, his interest has been mostly focused on situation and their atmosphere. The mystical figures determined by a thin silhouette that inhabited his early canvas have now disappeared, leaving space to the feelings and the emotions that these characters once conveyed. A valley, a swamp, a dense jungle or a flower are not painted to project the image of themselves, these are instead tools Lu Song uses to express feelings, memories and emotions.

Gallery address: 3/F, Pedder Building, Central