Exhibited: Three Installations by Xu Bing, Elvehjem Museum of Art, WisconsinMaterials: Mixed media installation / Hand-printed books and scrolls printed from blocks inscribed with ''false'' characters.
Institution: Xu Bing's East Village Studio, New YorkMaterials: books, computer, paper, photographs, silkworm.
Exhibited: Xu Bing, Jack Tilton Gallery, New YorkMaterials: Mixed medIa installation / Live pigs, bamboo, classical paintings.
\Institution: Fukuoka Asia Art Museum, JapanMaterials: Mixed media installation / Computers and software.
Exhibited: Made in China, The Louisiana Museum of Modern, Denmark
Materials: Cut and painted acrylic
Bio
Xu Bing is a Chinese artist who works in a variety of media to create often large-scale installations usually connected to mass society and communication. Bing believes in art as a mechanism for influencing the society in which it functions and places more emphasis on message than material. This being said, his masterful use of unconventional materials not only contains clear and powerful messages, it holds aesthetic and material power which is clear as a viewer or participant in the "transaction." Xu Bing's "Book from the Sky" project is an example of his genius combination of concept, content and material usage to create a moving installation. He comments on the easily manipulation of communication by fabricating countless Chinese manuscripts. Now, Bing is performing a residency at VCU and VMFA.
Quotations
"It is impossible to pinpoint the place and moment at which new interpretations for a work of art are derived. Xu Bing himself is never certain what his works' ultimate meanings will be, and he seems to accept that defining meaning can be the prerogative of both artist and audience. Furthermore, meaning is not inherent in the work of art: it is transformed as the work travels through time and space; and the more open the work of art is, the more the reactive imprint of
the artist or audience dominates its meaning."
Evolving Meanings in Xu Bing's Art: A Case Study of Transference
Erickson, Britta
Erickson, Britta
"Chinese artist Xu Bing's calligraphic works blur the divides of language and meaning, past and present, truth and lies."
Being and Nothingness
Claire Lui
Claire Lui
Relates
Xu Bing's work relates to how I aspire for my work function and be interpreted. I try to use my material to further my concept, which I believe Bing does as well, whether or not his intention is on material or concept emphasis. For example, I use the medium of digital photography now to convey an impermanence and plasiticity which exists in society at large, as well as the desperation of living things to resist their own impermanence and obsolescence. My concept relates to Xu Bing's because both concepts concern an overarching "life" and the ways in which manipulation can be interpreted. The manipulation in both methodologies are artist rendered, but link to certain existing institutions in society. (His is cultural language and mine is how cultures deal with genetics and evolution.)
Interview
Xu Bing's work relates to how I aspire for my work function and be interpreted. I try to use my material to further my concept, which I believe Bing does as well, whether or not his intention is on material or concept emphasis. For example, I use the medium of digital photography now to convey an impermanence and plasiticity which exists in society at large, as well as the desperation of living things to resist their own impermanence and obsolescence. My concept relates to Xu Bing's because both concepts concern an overarching "life" and the ways in which manipulation can be interpreted. The manipulation in both methodologies are artist rendered, but link to certain existing institutions in society. (His is cultural language and mine is how cultures deal with genetics and evolution.)
Interview
Gallery
http://www.artbeatus.com/
Website
http://www.xubing.com/index.php
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