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Skip to Main ContentXu Bing 徐冰, ‘Book from the Sky 1987–91’, 1987-1991Xu Bing 徐冰

Chinese, b. 1955

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Pioneering Chinese contemporary artist Xu Bing creates powerful, poignant mixed-media installations, in which he subverts systems of language, upending expectations and perception. He explains that his works “are all linked by a common thread, which is to construct some kind of obstacle to people's habitual ways of thinking—what I call the ‘cognitive structures’ of the mind.” Trained as a printmaker, Xu is informed by the Cultural Revolution, Chan Buddhism, and his keen interest in the relationship between meaning and words, writing, and reading. He has famously re-invented Chinese characters and the English alphabet, rendering Chinese nonsensical and English into legible Chinese characters, effectively challenging comprehension of both. In Book from the Sky (1987-91), Xu filled a gallery with scrolls and books hand-printed with 4,000 “false” Chinese characters—a stunning commentary on the subjectivity of language and its meaning.

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Solo show at 4 major institutionsUCCA, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and MASS MoCAGroup show at 13 major institutionsLos Angeles County Museum of Art, Rockbund Art Museum, UCCA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), The Museum of Modern Art, MASS MoCA, Mori Art Museum, Museo Reina Sofía, MoMA PS1, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, M+, and Deichtorhallen HamburgArtworksAuction ResultsAboutDiscover and Buy Art that Moves YouGet the app. Get the art.Sign Up

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