Artist's Talk: Xu Bing

March 9, 2023

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Pomerene Hall 160

Add to Calendar 2023-03-09 17:00:00 2023-03-09 18:30:00 Artist's Talk: Xu Bing Xu Bing: My Approach to ArtIn this talk the artist Xu Bing, whose work spans the fields of ecological art, printmaking, new media installations, drawing, and sculpture, will reflect on his methods of art making. After laboring in the countryside for two years during the Cultural Revolution, Xu Bing received his BA and MFA degrees in 1981 and 1987 from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, where he became an instructor. In the late 1980s he devoted four years to creating more than four thousand “fake” Chinese characters (components of the Chinese script were recomposed to construct non-existent Chinese characters). The resulting work, “The Book from the Sky,” was presented in 1989 in the first major exhibition of contemporary art in China, “China/Avant Garde,” in Beijing. On invitation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he moved to the United States in 1990, after which he quickly established himself as a major figure in the international art world. He exhibited at the Wexner Center for the Arts at OSU in 1993.Xu Bing is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (1999), Fukuoka Asian Arts and Culture Prize (2003), the first Wales International Visual Arts Prize, Artes Mundi (2004), a lifetime achievement award from the Southern Graphics Council (2006), and a doctorate of humane letters by Columbia University (2010). In January 2015, Secretary of State John Kerry, awarded him the U.S. Department of State Department Medal of Arts for his contributions to the Art in Embassies Program. His work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.; at the Venice Biennales; as well as in the UK, Canada, Czech Republic, Australia, Spain, South Africa, and Germany.Organized by the Department of History of ArtCo-sponsored by the Institute for Chinese Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and LiteratureEvent is free and open to the public. Xu Bing, Phoenix, MASS MoCA, 2012. Pomerene Hall 160 OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

2023-03-09 17:00:00 2023-03-09 18:30:00 Artist's Talk: Xu Bing Xu Bing: My Approach to ArtIn this talk the artist Xu Bing, whose work spans the fields of ecological art, printmaking, new media installations, drawing, and sculpture, will reflect on his methods of art making. After laboring in the countryside for two years during the Cultural Revolution, Xu Bing received his BA and MFA degrees in 1981 and 1987 from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, where he became an instructor.  In the late 1980s he devoted four years to creating more than four thousand “fake” Chinese characters (components of the Chinese script were recomposed to construct non-existent Chinese characters).  The resulting work, “The Book from the Sky,” was presented in 1989 in the first major exhibition of contemporary art in China, “China/Avant Garde,” in Beijing. On invitation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he moved to the United States in 1990, after which he quickly established himself as a major figure in the international art world. He exhibited at the Wexner Center for the Arts at OSU in 1993.Xu Bing is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (1999), Fukuoka Asian Arts and Culture Prize (2003), the first Wales International Visual Arts Prize, Artes Mundi (2004), a lifetime achievement award from the Southern Graphics Council (2006), and a doctorate of humane letters by Columbia University (2010). In January 2015, Secretary of State John Kerry, awarded him the U.S. Department of State Department Medal of Arts for his contributions to the Art in Embassies Program. His work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.; at the Venice Biennales; as well as in the UK, Canada, Czech Republic, Australia, Spain, South Africa, and Germany.Organized by the Department of History of ArtCo-sponsored by the Institute for Chinese Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and LiteratureEvent is free and open to the public.   Pomerene Hall 160 America/New_York public

Sculpture/Installation by Artist Xu Bing

Xu Bing, Gravitational Arena, Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai 2022.

Xu Bing, Phoenix, Cathedral of Saint John's the Divine, New York 2014.

Xu Bing: My Approach to Art

In this talk the artist Xu Bing, whose work spans the fields of ecological art, printmaking, new media installations, drawing, and sculpture, will reflect on his methods of art making. After laboring in the countryside for two years during the Cultural Revolution, Xu Bing received his BA and MFA degrees in 1981 and 1987 from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, where he became an instructor. In the late 1980s he devoted four years to creating more than four thousand “fake” Chinese characters (components of the Chinese script were recomposed to construct non-existent Chinese characters). The resulting work, “The Book from the Sky,” was presented in 1989 in the first major exhibition of contemporary art in China, “China/Avant Garde,” in Beijing. On invitation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he moved to the United States in 1990, after which he quickly established himself as a major figure in the international art world. He exhibited at the Wexner Center for the Arts at OSU in 1993.

Xu Bing is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (1999), Fukuoka Asian Arts and Culture Prize (2003), the first Wales International Visual Arts Prize, Artes Mundi (2004), a lifetime achievement award from the Southern Graphics Council (2006), and a doctorate of humane letters by Columbia University (2010). In January 2015, Secretary of State John Kerry, awarded him the U.S. Department of State Department Medal of Arts for his contributions to the Art in Embassies Program.

His work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.; at the Venice Biennales; as well as in the UK, Canada, Czech Republic, Australia, Spain, South Africa, and Germany.

Organized by the Department of History of Art

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Chinese Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature

Event is free and open to the public.

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