Xu Bing
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| Book From The Sky |
This article talks about Xu Bing's participation in the "Artists Respond" project. This project concern's our changing world and our role in it. Bing visited Kenya for its culture and biological diversity. "As a Chinese artist living in America, I take great interactions between cultures."
http://www.hanshan.com/specials/xubingts.html
This article is more of a general biography, but discusses his project "A Book from the Sky" in-depth.
Xu Bing's art seems to be primarily concerned with communication. In his "A Book from the Sky" project, he created over 400 unique characters in the style of Chinese Kanji, and painstakingly engraved them in woodblock before printing them onto meters upon meters of paper that covered a room in his installation. By using indecipherable unique characters, he makes an interesting point about the nature of communication and language.
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