Xu Bing

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Description

Xu Bing
New English Calligraphy: Quotations from Chairman Mao: Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art
signed and dated April 2000 in the artist's New English Calligraphy script
ink on paper
26 1/2 by 58 in. 67.3 by 147.3 cm.

Provenance

Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Catalogue Note

The text reads:

Quotations from Mao Tse Tung
Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art

What then is the crux of the matter. In my opinion, it consists fundamentally of the problem of working for the masses and how to work for the masses. Unless these two problems are solved, or solved properly, our writers and artists will be ill adapted to their environment and their tasks and will come up against a series of difficulties from without and within.

Calligraphy by Xu Bing April two thousand