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Xu Bing was born in Chongqing, China in 1955 and raised in Beijing. He enrolled in the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1977, completed his studies in 1981, and later joined the faculty.
Xu Bing: Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Forest Project & Book from the Ground
The exhibition revolves around the Xu Bing Tianshu Rocket launched by Xu Bing and i-Space. The unique exhibition is presented through a large number of texts, pictures, video materials, and works of art, investigating the history of space art.
When Xu Bing began his graduate studies, he became interested in printmaking as an indirect form of drawing, as well as the element of repetition that characterizes the medium. For his graduation exhibition, he showed Five Series of Repetitions as well as his “Stone Series” of copperplate prints.
The new exhibition Xu Bing: Gravitational Arena officially opened on August 12, 2022 in the Exhibition Hall X of Museum of Art Pudong (MAP). This exhibition was produced by the Lujiazui Group and organized by MAP.
In the current overall situation of the integration of technology and art, Xu Bing hopes to convey his perception of the current multidimensional reality through low-tech traditional media, as well as reflections on the future trend of “reading pictures” or even “comprehending symbols.”.
Xu Bing’s Book from the Ground, which he has been working on since 2003, is an ongoing exploration of communication and language. The project involves compiling symbols and pictograms from the public sphere and using them to create a book exclusively written in visual language.
Xu Bing Art Satellite Creative Residency Project 2024 Background Story: Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains
Xu Bing's "Gravitational Arena," recently installed in the Exhibition Hall X of the Museum of Art Pudong (MAP), is certainly an example of the former. Interestingly, the same space previously showcased a commissioned work by world-renowned Chinese firecracker artist, Cai Guoqiang.
