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Xu Bing (Chinese: 徐冰, born 1955) is a Chinese-born artist who lived in the United States for eighteen years. Currently residing in Beijing, he used to serve as the vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is most known for his printmaking skills and installations pieces, as well as his creative artistic use of language, words, and text and how they have affected our understanding of the world.
Born in Chongqing in 1955, Xu grew up in Beijing. In 1975, near the end of the Cultural Revolution, he was relocated to the countryside for two years. Returning to Beijing in 1977, he enrolled at the Central Academy of Fine Arts(CAFA) where he joined the printmaking department, receiving his Masters in Fine Art in 1987. After the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 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 resided until his appointment as vice-president of the Beijing CAFA in 2008.
On the occasion of his "Tobacco Project" exhibition at the Aldrich Museum, ARTINFO visited Xu Bing in his studio, and sat down to discuss how he became an artist despite the political challenges, the inspiration he took from New York's tumultuous art scene, and his latest projects.
Xu Bing, Book from the Sky, c. 1987-91, hand-printed books and ceiling and wall scrolls printed from wood letterpress type; ink on paper, each book, open: 18 1/8 × 20 inches / 46 × 51 cm; each of three ceiling scrolls 38 inches × c. 114 feet 9-7/8 inches / 96.5 × 3500 cm; each wall scroll 9 feet 2-1/4 inches × 39-3/8 inches / 280 × 100 cm (installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014), collection of the artist, © Xu Bing More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=DseIYQdjzgE Speakers: Allison Young and Steven Zucker
Conceptual artist Xu Bing speaks about Square Word Calligraphy Classroom on exhibit at the Wallach Gallery, in which he devised a method of writing English words to resemble Chinese characters. The interactive installation resembles a classroom where visitors are invited to try their hand at a ?Chinese? way of writing English. The talk will be moderated by John Rajchman, Faculty, Department of Art History and Archaeology. Exhibition open Sep 7 ? Oct 22 Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Schermerhorn Hall
Xu Bing gave an Artist Talk at MASS MoCA on April 26, 2013. Translation by Jesse Robert Coffino, Studio Director, Xu Bing Studio. The lecture event was sponsored by Williams College Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the Department of Asian Studies with generous funding from the James A. Linen III 1934 Fund and the W. Ford Schumann '50 Program for Democratic Studies. Additional support provided by Mr. & Mrs. Robert I. Lipp. The video documentation was sponsored by Andrew and Barbara Gundlach and the Anna Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.
Discover the secrets behind this shadow-and-light box installation by contemporary artist Xu Bing, inspired by a Chinese painting in the Museum's collection. Xu Bing's installation at the British Museum is 5 metres tall and is made using materials such as hemp fibres, dry plants, corn husks, crumpled paper and debris sourced from sites across London. Background Story 7 is on display until 10 July 2011. Find out more: http://bit.ly/kXXKW8 Join the conversation: www.twitter.com/britishmuseum www.facebook.com/britishmuseum
This video was commissioned by the Center for Faith & Work to help illustrate the concept of "Humanizing Work" for their 2013 conference. Directed by Jonathan Seale Illustrated by Alix Pentecost-Farren Music composed by Russell Durham and produced by Jonathan Seale Narrated by Matt Porter, Manuel Dominguez, Jane Stewart Adams, Carrie Crowell and Dana Seale Mixed by Jacob Blumberg and Jonathan Seale Color by Alan Gordon of Post Pro Gumbo
World-renowned artist Xu Bing sits with SCAD president and founder Paula Wallace to discuss the power of words, smell as a means of communication, and his advice for students.
北美館│徐冰:回顧展 Xu Bing: A Retrospective 展覽時間 Date: 2014/01/25 - 2014/04/20 展覽地點 Venue: 臺北市立美術館 臺北市立美術館於2014年1月為國際當代藝術家徐冰主辦亞洲地區首度大型個展「徐冰:回顧展」,並邀請台灣資深策展人暨藝評學者王嘉驥策展。徐冰1955年生於重慶,1981年畢業於中央美術學院版畫系。1990年接受美國威斯康辛大學邀請,以榮譽藝術家身份移居美國,長期活躍歐美,是國際藝壇極為重視的當代華人藝術家。2007年起擔任北京中央美術學院副院長、教授。自1975年創作至今近40年,1991年在美國展出《天書》及《鬼打牆》,是其奠定藝術成就與地位的關鍵之作。他將東方的哲學思維方式及文化導入當代藝術創作中,作品對文字語言等溝通工具、藝術與文明的本質問題、不同物種與文化間的類似與衝突等進行批判性思考。從傳統木刻到裝置藝術、無法辨認的方塊字到文盲皆可識的標誌符號,寫生風景到研究漢字的性格的文字語言與符號學,作品包括版畫、紙上作品、行為藝術、大型裝置計畫等,類型深廣且多元,本展將展出從早期至今的重要作品計畫、新作與大型現地製作。 In January 2014 Taipei Fine Arts Museum presents Xu Bing: A Retrospective, Asia's first large-scale solo exhibition of international contemporary artist Xu Bing, curated by senior curator and art critic Chia Chi Jason Wang. Xu Bing has been actively pursuing art for four decades, from 1975 t...
A young visitor explores artist Xu Bing's work "The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats," part of the exhibition "Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China." Learn more about the exhibition: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/ink-art Explore more Kids' Zone video content at MetMedia: http://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/kids-zone
Recorded at Today Art Museum, Beijing, 18 July 2009 Produced by Asia Art Archive as part of Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990 For more information please visit: www.china1980s.org and www.aaa.org.hk
An interview with the distinguished Chinese artist Xu Bing, done on 28 April 2015 by Alan Macfarlane and Li Shuo, edited by Sarah Harrison, talking about his life and painting.
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Intervista con Xu Bing (Cina), artista selezionato per la mostra All The World's Futures - Biennale Arte 2015. Espone all’Arsenale. Interview with Xu Bing (China), artist selected to participate in the exhibition All The World's Futures - Biennale Arte 2015. Exhibited at the Arsenale.
The Ashmolean exhibition "Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript" ran from 28th Feb until 19th May 2013. View the exhibition online and explore the innovative landscape work of one of China's most renowned contemporary artists: http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/collection/6980/10293 View more images and photos, and hear interviews, at our Meet Xu Bing site: http://www.meetxubing.com/en/map/view/55 And listen to an exclusive talk by Xu Bing at Oxford University at: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/xu-bing-kind-artist-i-am-audio-0
On August 2, the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings hosted Xu Bing and Fan Di’an for a discussion on how global and local forces influence artwork in China and how art reflects the views and ideas of Chinese society. https://www.brookings.edu/events/vitality-diversity-and-diplomacy-in-chinese-contemporary-art/ (transcript available) Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=BrookingsInstitution Follow Brookings on social media! Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/Brookings Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/BrookingsInst Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/brookingsinst LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/com/company/the-brookings-institution
Xu Bing's Dragonfly Eyes (Trailer): A work in progress which will culminate in the first full-length cinematic feature by renowned Chinese artist Xu Bing. The film eschews camera operators and on-screen actors, and instead employs publicly available video surveillance footage of everyday life. The “plot” of the film centers on a female protagonist named Dragonfly, who frequently undergoes cosmetic surgery. Inspired by an alleged news story that went viral online, Dragonfly Eyes is based on the reputed case of a husband who, after his wife gave birth to an ugly child, sued her for divorce when he learned she had undergone plastic surgery prior to their marriage. The upcoming film constructs a narrative from seemingly unrelated fragments of reality to reveal what cannot be seen by the na...
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XU BING WORLDS OF WORDS/GOODS OF GODS Xu bing born in 1995 in China Much of xu bing's work was generated by his deep fascination with the phenomenon of written language.Between his book of the heaven based on freely invented characters,made during the late 1980s and his recently produced monumental film the character of characters lies a lifelong investigation into the spirituality of those written marks that charge themselves with all kinds of meanings . With the book of the ground this perseverance would lead to the invention of a new and universal language based entirely on internet icons. In this exhibition,xu bing's universe is confronted to those of a handful of masters who,each in their own way,have developed very similar ideas and strategies during the careers.
This video covers xu bing and his two most popular works: Book From The Sky and Book From the Ground with a catchy theme and popular music
In Dialogue with Xu Bing 01 - In Dialogue with Xu Bing, 11.07.2015 Karl Jaspers Centre, R. 212 | Voßstraße 2 (Bld. 4400) Xu Bing responds to questions from students and the critical public. Jason Wang, Chief Curator, Xu Bing Retrospective 2014 at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Prof. Dr. Henry Keazor, Head of the Institute of European Art History, and Prof. Dr. Sarah E. Fraser moderates the discussion.
In Dialogue with Xu Bing 03: Audience Participation in Xu Bing's Works, 16.07.2015 Neue Universität, Hörsaal 13 | Universitätsplatz In 1999 Xu mounted a show at the MoMA in New York, entitled, Projects 70: Banners I, flying a banner outside inscribed with the words “Art for the People,” a paraphrase of Chairman Mao’s famous quote “Art serves the people.” The 1980s Book from the Sky was one of his early works that explores the horizon of the traditional elite culture, demonstrating the impact of socialist ideals on post-Cultural Revolutionary China. From his prints about rural landscape to his current work in metal, Phoenix in St. John the Divine Cathedral, Xu Bing’s work addresses a public beyond China that resonates globally. Phoenix, consisting of two monumental birds made of demolitio...
The CRASSH Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies, Xu Bing (Former President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing), will give two public lectures and participate in a concluding symposium. He will also attend a talk and reception at the Fitzwilliam Museum to celebrate his visit to Cambridge. Abstract Based on his practice in the past decades, Xu Bing will analyze how the cultural gene has been passed on and has thus influenced art making. -The definition of tradition is something transmitted through cultural DNA -What is the strength and weakness of Chinese tradition? How the two can be mutually convertable -Why we hardly take advantage of our own tradition -How the traditional and the contemporary relate with each other -The cause of certain phenomenon in contempor...
This conversation celebrates the opening of the exhibition Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy (on view at the Asian Art Museum from October 5, 2012-January 13, 2013). It explores the overlapping interests of internationally recognized contemporary artist Xu Bing and Jerry Yang, a passionate collector and practitioner of Chinese calligraphy. The museum's director, Dr. Jay Xu, moderates the discussion, focusing on the new artwork by Xu Bing commissioned for the exhibition, along with masterpiece artworks from Jerry Yang's collection. For more information: http://www.asianart.org/calligraphy/
A behind-the-scenes look at Chinese artist Xu Bing as he prepares a groundbreaking exhibition.
How does language define culture? What does it mean to strip meaning from language? The art of Xu Bing raises these stirring questions. Globally known for his contemporary and dynamic style, the renowned Chinese artist made a special appearance at the Asian Art Museum to talk about influences on his art, specifically his works since 2008. For more information: http://www.asianart.org/xubing.htm
Join contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing in conversation with Jane Debevoise, chair of the Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong, and Carol Huh, assistant curator of contemporary Asian art at the Freer|Sackler, as they discuss Xu's recent projects from calligraphy and monumental public art to time-based digital media works.
CRASSH Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies, Xu Bing, at the Fitzwilliam Museum. At this special evening at the Fitzwilliam Museum to celebrate his visit to Cambridge you will have the opportunity to meet Xu Bing and to see a small installation of his four birdcages in the Chinese Gallery. Xu Bing will discuss his work with Shelagh Vainker who curated his exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in 2013.
he CRASSH Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies, Xu Bing (Former President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing), will give two public lectures and participate in a concluding symposium. He will also attend a talk and reception at the Fitzwilliam Museum to celebrate his visit to Cambridge. Abstracct The lecture will address the motivation of artistic creation through case studies where the artist gets his source of inspiration. -The relationship between the energy of reality and the energy of creativity -From where does the artist get his inspiration? -The tendency to create in a certain style is an artist's destiny -The organic development of artistic creation -Why I say don't take art too seriously and where does its new energy come from?
Will I hate tomorrow?
Will I hate what I can't see?
I'm doubting
Should I walk around it
Try to be what I can't be
I'm dying
I'm not happy any
I'm just not happy anymore
I'm drownin'
I'm not happy any
I'm just not happy anymore
I'm drownin'
Suppose you painted the castle of Auvers
But everything you did came alive
And if you painted all these things just to please me
And if you could read my mind
I would never be happy
What will change tomorrow?
In this sea within a sea
I'm blinded
How long will I be down?
I'm out of air I can not breath
I'm drownin'
I'm not happy any
I'm just not happy anymore
I'm drownin'
I'm not happy any
I'm just not happy anymore
I'm drownin'
I'm drownin'
I'm drownin'
Yeah well I'm, I'm drownin'
Yeah yeah I'm drownin'