Explore the innovative landscape work of one of China’s most renowned contemporary artists.
These barns and stables were located at the top of the village of Shouliang Gou. Artists’ materials were hard to come by, and Xu Bing has used wrapping paper from the commune brigade’s stores, and children’s crayons. The quality of the crayon was poor, and the cold weather caused it to freeze. The effects of subsequent thawing can be seen in some areas.
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. 4 on p. 31, illus. p. 31 fig. 4
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