徐冰 版画家和书法家

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Xu Bing
Printmaker and Calligrapher | Class of 1999
Title
Printmaker and Calligrapher
Location
New York, New York
Age
44 at time of award
Area of Focus
Crafts and Arts Technology
Website
www.xubing.com
Social
Instagram
Published July 1, 1999
ABOUT XU BING'S WORK
Xu Bing is an artist who uses ancient Chinese methods of printmaking and calligraphy to explore new dimensions for contemporary Chinese art.

Much of his work deals with the representation of language (using imprints, rubbings, and the tension between trace and erasure) and issues of meaning. Xu Bing’s installation, A Book from the Sky, consists of hundreds of pages of text using 4000 meaningless characters constructed from the elements of real Chinese characters. He carved each character on a wood block, and then printed the characters in books, on wall-sized sheets of paper, and on huge swaths of paper draped from the ceiling. His Ghosts Pounding the Walls is a large rubbing on rice paper of a portion of the Great Wall—both of its sides and walkway for about twenty feet. In his Tsan (silkworm) series, silkworms hatch from eggs spread over a text that they slowly obliterate as they spin their silk.

BIOGRAPHY
Xu Bing teaches calligraphy to students at various museums around the United States. He has had solo exhibitions in China, Japan, Australia, Africa, Canada, the United States, and throughout Europe.

Xu Bing received a B.A. (1981) and an M.F.A. (1987) from Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Art. He emigrated to the United States in 1990.

Last updated January 1, 2005



徐冰
版画家和书法家 | 1999级
标题
版画家和书法家
工作地点
纽约，纽约
年龄
获奖时44岁
重点领域
手工艺和艺术技术
网站
www.xubing.com
社交网络
镜像
1999年7月1日出版
关于徐冰的作品
徐冰是一位艺术家，他使用中国古代的版画和书法方法来探索中国当代艺术的新层面。

他的大部分作品都涉及到语言的表现（使用印记、拓印以及痕迹和擦除之间的张力）和意义的问题。徐冰的装置作品《天书》由数百页的文字组成，使用了4000个由真实汉字元素构建的无意义的字符。他在一个木块上刻下每个字，然后把这些字印在书上，印在墙壁大小的纸上，以及从天花板上垂下的巨大的纸片上。他的《鬼打墙》是在宣纸上对长城的一部分--其两侧和约20英尺的走道--进行的大幅拓印。在他的Tsan（蚕）系列作品中，蚕从散布在文本上的卵中孵化出来，它们在纺丝的过程中慢慢湮灭了。

个人简历
徐冰在美国各地的博物馆教学生书法。他曾在中国、日本、澳大利亚、非洲、加拿大、美国和整个欧洲举办过个人展览。

徐冰在北京的中央美术学院获得学士学位（1981年）和硕士学位（1987年）。他于1990年移居美国。

最后更新日期：2005年1月1日