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Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript

(from 28th Feb until 19th May 2013)

Explore the innovative landscape work of one of China’s most renowned contemporary artists.

Detail of Family Plots, by Xu Bing, Beijing, 1988 (Museum no. LI2007.61)
A Seedfront

© the artist

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A Seed

  • loan

  • Description

    The composition of this print derives from an early sketch (LI2007.44). The tyre marks on the right are imprinted on a patch of seeds at the roadside, in the same way that Xu Bing’s early drawings refer to rather than depict the presence of people in a landscape. The whole, however, shows a different way of thinking about landscape representation and a new departure in Xu Bing’s work.

  • Details

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    Series
    Nature
    Associated place
    Asia › China (place of creation)
    Date
    1985
    Artist/maker
    Xu Bing (born 1955) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    woodcut
    Dimensions
    45 x 60 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed › relief print › woodcut
    Object type index
    visual representation › calligraphy,
    visual representation › print
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
    Accession no.
    LI2007.51

  • Further reading

    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. 59 on p. 97, pp. 22, 77, 80, 81, illus. p. 22 fig. 7 & p. 97 fig. 59

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