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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)
Sketchbook of southern Gansu landscapesfront

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Sketchbook of southern Gansu landscapes

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  • Description

    Xu Bing travelled extensively throughout China in the late 1970s and particularly the early 1980s. He always carried a sketchbook. The sketch on this page opening is of a hillside in the northwestern province of Gansu. It shows cultivation of the land, and tyre marks, but no figures. It is typical of Xu Bing’s landscape drawing that traces of human occupation are shown without any representation of people themselves.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China › Gansu province (south) (place of creation)
    Asia › China › Gansu province (south) (subject)
    Date
    1979 - 1980
    Artist/maker
    Xu Bing (born 1955) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink on paper; bound
    Dimensions
    page 15.5 x 20.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    drawn (image),
    bound
    Object type index
    communications equipment › book › sketch-book,
    visual representation › drawing,
    visual representation › sketch-book
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
    Accession no.
    LI2007.30

  • 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. 32 on p. 68, pp. 23, 81, 96, illus. p. 68 fig. 32

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