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Mountain Rhythm
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Description
This mountainside shows the site of a hydro-electric power station that was under construction near the Longyang Gorge at the time of Xu Bing’s visit. The etching is a rare example of open-air engraving. Xu Bing took with him to Qinghai province copper plates that had been waxed in Beijing. He scratched through them at the scene to make these two images, which are part of a series, and added the acid when he returned to his local accommodation.
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Details
- Series
- Longyang Gorge
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (place of creation)Asia › China › Qinghai province (Longyang Gorge) (place of creation)Asia › China › Qinghai province (Longyang Gorge) (subject)
- Date
- 28 July 1986
- Artist/maker
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Xu Bing (born 1955) (printmaker)
- Material and technique
- etching; pencil inscription
- Dimensions
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mount 59.5 x 78 cm (height x width)
sheet 56.5 x 52 cm (height x width)
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printed › intaglio print › etching,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
- Accession no.
- LI2007.52
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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. 60 on p. 98, pp. 70, 71, 84, 99, illus. p. 98 fig. 60
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- returned to owner
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