Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

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  • Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum by Weimin He and Shelagh Vainker

    Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum

    My work marks the direction towards the sacred land, no matter how far I am going to travel. In the end I hope what I have been pursuing is not a mere dream, nor the sacred place a vague and empty desolate town.

    Wang Bing first studied art at the Zhangye Normal Vocational School in Gansu and in 1984 he studied printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. On his return to Gansu, he worked as a professional printmaker at the Gansu Art Institute, leaving in 1997, when he went to Düsseldorf to study printmaking and oil painting. After completing a five-year course and a Master’s degree, he worked in CAFA’s Architecture Department. Wang is well known for his monochrome prints of Tibet, which he depicts as an idealized sacred land. His dramatic cutting technique and ingenious use of composition create a distinctive dream-like realm filled with mystery, gravity and vitality.

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