Explore the innovative landscape work of one of China’s most renowned contemporary artists.
Changbai in the far northeast is one of China’s main forest regions. Xu Bing went there on a trip organised by the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and this drawing ‘at the East is Red forestry department timber yard and mill’ was amongst those submitted in his final degree project. He has used various erasure techniques, and the composition is more pictorial than in other drawings of this period. The repetitions anticipate aspects of his later landscape work.
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 8 on p. 36, pp. 16, 18, 19, 38, 45, illus. p. 37 fig. 8
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