Explore the innovative landscape work of one of China’s most renowned contemporary artists.
This cave dwelling is cut directly into rock. Most homes of this type are cut into the loess cliffs further north and west of Handan. The drawing exemplifies Xu Bing’s stated preference at the time for depicting simple, everyday things: shoes, tools, baskets, and vegetables are all shown. Xu Bing later made a larger lithograph of this drawing.
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. 13 on p. 44, pp. 15, 16, illus. p. 44 fig. 13
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