Lot 152
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Xu Bing

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Xu Bing
  • Square Word Calligraphy: Art for the People
  • signed and dated 2002

  • dye sublimation on silk/linen
  • 393 1/2 by 137 in. 1000 by 350 cm.
  • Executed in 2006.

Exhibited

Other example:
The Victoria & Albert Museum and Serpentine Gallery, London, Give and Take, 2001 
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Banner Project, 1999

 

Literature

Other example:
Karen Smith, Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China, Beijing, 2006, p. 350, illustrated in color
Jerome Silbergeld and Dora C.Y. Ching, eds., Persistence/Transformation: Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing, Princeton, 2006, p. 107, illustrated
Wu Hung ed., Xu Bing: Tobacco Project, Beijing, 2006, p. 114, illustrated in color
Zhang Zhaohui, Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Xu Bing and Cai Guo-Qiang, Hong Kong, 2005, p. 27, illustrated in color
Uta Rahman-Steinert, et al. Xu Bing in Berlin, Berlin, 2004, p. 65, illustrated in color
Pablo J. Rico, Xu Bing: The Well of Truth, Spain, 2004, p. 91
Gao Minglu, The Art and Methodology of Xu Bing, Taipei, 2003, p. 50, illustrated in color
Richard Cork, “At Home from Home.” The Times (London), Arts Section (January 24, 2001), pp. 17-18
Britta Erickson, Words Without Meaning, Meaning Without Words: The Art of Xu Bing, Seattle and London, 2001, p. 12, illustrated in color
Ann Wilson Lloyd, "Binding Together Cultures With Cords of Wit," The New York Times, Arts and Leisure Section (June 18, 2000), pp. 35 & 37