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the reorganization of the standard Chinese language, Xu Bing experienced the constant reformation of words. This constant linguistic change influenced his art: Xu Bing emphasizes the immortality of the essence of language while vividly illustrating the impermanence and capriciousness of words themselves. In this way language becomes malleable and it can be fashioned to either liberate or control. Just as it is nigh impossible to detangle life from politics during the
601: 646:(Landscape) scroll painting, with images of mountains, trees, and rivers. However, when seen from behind, the viewer is surprised to find that the beautiful "painting" is in fact created by using the shapes and shadows of random natural plant debris. Once again, Xu Bing challenges his audience's basic assumptions and shows them that everything is not always as it first seems. In 2022, Xu Bing created a version of 243: 47: 561:. Leaving China in 1991 for the political and artistic freedom of the United States, Xu Bing continued to explore and express his thoughts on deconstructing language to challenge our most "natural" cultural assumptions. His thought-provoking work enticed Western audiences, and he soon became one of the leading artists in the modern Chinese art scene. 402:, his recent work came under scrutiny from the government and received harsh criticism for what was perceived as a critique of the Chinese government. Due to the political pressure and artistic restrictions of the post-Tiananmen period in China, Xu Bing, like many of his contemporaries, moved to the United States in 1990 where he was invited by the 88: 675:
later saying that they "made my skin quiver." He was inspired to construct two large sculptures in the form of birds that are made largely out of construction debris and tools that he salvaged from the site. The larger sculpture, 100 feet (30 meters) long, is identified as a male and named Feng in accordance with the Chinese
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In 2008, after returning to China to take the position at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Xu Bing was asked to create a sculpture for the atrium of the World Financial Center, which was then being developed in Beijing. He was shocked by primitive working conditions he saw at the construction site,
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with written "Chinese" texts. Even so, this work challenges our very approach to language because of the unique nature of the text written on the paper. First presented in Beijing in 1988, the learned élite felt slighted by the artists' bold move to design and print over 4,000 characters that looked
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Xu Bing plays incessantly with the role, purpose, and reality of language. Early in his life his father would make him write a page of characters a day, encouraging him to not only copy their form to perfection, but also to capture their spirit, their essence. During Mao's cultural reformations and
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poem reads, "As there is nothing from the first, where does the dust itself collect?" Using this tragedy as an expression of the human narrative, Xu Bing contemplates the relationship between the material and the spiritual, and he explores "the complicated circumstances created by different world
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tradition. The smaller one is 90 feet (27 meters) long and is a female named Huang. Originally planned to take four months, the sculptures ultimately took two years to build; by that time the developers of the complex had decided the sculptures did not meet their needs. They were displayed at the
794:(2004, 2011). For this piece, the artist gathered dust from the aftermath of the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York after September 11, 2001, and uses it to recreate the gray film that covered Manhattan in the weeks following the attacks. Stenciled in the dust, a 732:(2004–present) where his work imitates a traditional Chinese brush and ink scroll from the front, but is in fact designed by means of the projected shadows of plants and sticks. Even more recently, Xu Bing has delved into sculpture and metalworking, as seen in 790:." This situation gave rise to social themes of anxiety and hopelessness, which eventually have seeped into the realm of the arts. Even so, some artists like Xu Bing chose to explore the serenity found in the midst of chaos, as illustrated in his work 1399: 712:
Xu Bing's art medium has evolved over the years, morphing from one style to the next: print-making and wood-block carving, installation art, live installation art, metalwork and sculpture, landscaping, and even virtual and digital mediums.
775:, which encouraged the "uninterrupted flow of funds from developed countries to Kenya, earmarked for the planting of new trees." Even so, his focus is always on the effect that environmental issues have on people, such as the villages in 362:. He is known for his printmaking skills and installation art, as well as his creative artistic use of language, words, and text and how they have affected our understanding of the world. He is an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at 452:
Working in a wide range of media, Xu creates installations that question the idea of communicating meaning through language, demonstrating how both meanings and written words can be easily manipulated. He received a
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Chinese but were completely meaningless according to standard Mandarin. Xu Bing infuses his work with meaning by stirring confusion and discomfort in his audience, mostly due to the fact that the
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Using his background in print-making, in May and June 1990 Xu Bing and a team of art students and help from local residents began a monumental project: creating a rubbing from a section of the
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to print volumes and scrolls, which are displayed laid out on the floor and hung from the ceiling. The vast planes of text seem to convey ancient wisdom, but are in fact unintelligible.
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style of art so predominant during the Maoist era. After graduating with his degree in printmaking, the artist veered away and created simple but dramatic woodcuts, such as
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It was not until 2008 that Xu Bing set aside his post-Maoist reactionary art and invested in other topics. For example, he took on environmental projects such as
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Xu Bing's art mostly reflects cultural issues which raged during his early life in China. Most notably, the cultural and linguistic reforms enacted by the
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grant in July 1999, presented to him for "originality, creativity, self-direction, and capacity to contribute importantly to society, particularly in
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Taking installation art a step further, Xu Bing focused on live installation art by using animals in his exhibits, such as in the case of the
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In 2003 he exhibited at the then new Chinese Arts centre in Manchester, and in 2004 he won the inaugural "Artes Mundi" prize in Wales for
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An example of Xu Bing's 'Square Word' calligraphy, combining Latin characters into forms that resemble Chinese characters. The word is '
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International Association of Art Critics Award for "Best Installation or Single Work of Art in a Museum, New England" (2006)
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At the turn of the millennium, a new defining social pattern emerged after the terrorist attacks in the United States on
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era (and its ramifications in decades to follow), Xu Bing also intertwines political messages into his art.
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stretches across the museum's atrium and pours down into an illegible pile of letters on the floor below.
163: 1430: 579:. In order to create the rubbings, Xu Bing used entirely traditional Chinese methods and materials for 1131: 1689: 1258: 454: 414: 31: 756:'s leadership weigh heavily on modern Chinese artists who lived through this period. Similarly, the 872: 852: 765: 757: 685: 662:, by Yang Xun. Through his reconsideration of the earlier landscape painting, the artist practices 440: 419: 391: 318: 1301: 553:
This piece was well received in China until 1989, whereupon the social and political drama of the
222: 1164: 547: 363: 431:, the artist invented 4,000 characters and hand-carved them into wood blocks, then used them as 728:(1997). Later he explored the combination of modern and traditional mediums, as in the case of 1023: 1009: 995: 514: 501: 487:
Xu Bing was appointed the new vice president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, March 2008.
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As in the case of many of his works, Xu Bing directly related his colossal piece,
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Pseudo-Languages: A Conversation with Wenda Gu, Xu Bing, and Jonathan Hay.
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Cornell University Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large Biography
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In 1990–91, Xu had his first exhibition in the United States at the
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The Art of Xu Bing: words without meaning and meaning without words
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Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane and Li Shuo 28 April 2015 (video)
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before coming to the United States in 2012. After a year at the
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While at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Xu Bing mastered the
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Tomji, Reiko; David Elliott; Robert Harriet; Xu Bing (2012).
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Cosmopatriots: On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters
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From 1994 he started a new project, in which he adapted
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American Academy in Berlin Coca-Cola Fellowship (2004)
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The Character of Characters: An Animation By Xu Bing
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Lanman Shanhua (Brilliant Mountain Flowers) Magazine
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