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Lot 150
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Xu Bing

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250,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Xu Bing
  • The Living Word

  • carved acrylic characters, paint

  • Installation: dimensions variable
  • Sketches: 8 1/2 by 14 in. 21.6 by 35.5 cm
  • Executed in 2001.

Exhibited

Washington DC, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing, 2001
Gwangju, Gwangju Art Museum, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, 2002
Fukuoka, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Xu Bing, 2003
Shanghai, Shanghai Art Museum, Urban Creation, Shanghai Biennale, November, 2002 - January, 2003, p. 231, illustrated in color
Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, The Elegance of Silence, Contemporary Art from East Asia, March - June, 2005, pp. 66-7, illustrated in color

Literature

Britta Erickson, Words Without Meaning, Meaning Without Words: The Art of Xu Bing, Washington DC, 2001, p.55, illustrated
Michael O'Sullivan, "Xu Bing's Verbal Cure," The Washington Post Weekend edition, Arts Section, Friday, November 2, 2001, p. 53
Glenn Harper, "Exterior Form - Interior Substances," Sculpture, vol. 22, no. 1, Jan/Feb 2003
Exh. Cat., La Gallera, Xu Bing: The Well of Truth, Valencia, 2004, pp. 183 - 191, illustrated in color