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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)
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Forest Project 3

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  • Description

    The inscription in ‘square word calligraphy’ reads ‘In the process of this painting, I started recording my experience each time I copied a tree. I discovered that each tree contained in it the secret of a child.’

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (place of creation)
    Date
    2009
    Artist/maker
    Xu Bing (born 1955) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink on paper
    Dimensions
    painting 116.5 x 344 cm sight size (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    drawn (image) › line drawing › brush drawing
    Object type index
    visual representation › calligraphy,
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
    Accession no.
    LI2007.80

  • 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. 93 on p. 180, pp. 1, 36, 151, 153, 197, illus. pp. 180-181 fig. 93

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