Explore the innovative landscape work of one of China’s most renowned contemporary artists.
The sketch on this page opening was drawn in the vicinity of Longyang Gorge, where the cliffs rise more than 200 metres above the Yellow River. Xu Bing visited the region in 1985 and again in 1986. His sketchbooks from that time include drawings of local nomadic people in addition to landscapes.
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. 35a & 35b on p. 71, pp. 23, 24, illus. p. 71 figs. 35a & 35b
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