Material: Bronze sculpture with colored patina

Dimension: Male (Feng): 56 ¼ x 13 ½ x 15 inch

                   Female (Huang): 55 ½ x 16 x 21 ¼ inch

Conceived at the time of Xu Bing’s monumental Phoenix Project, 2008-2010, which was exhibited in Beijing, Shanghai, New York and at the 2015 Venice Biennale, the intricate, hand painted Bronze Phoenix, 2016, consists of 500 separate cast and hand-wrought parts. Proud and powerful, a symbol of peace and prosperity, the mythological phoenix (Feng and Huang) foretell  great events. Xu Bing’s Bronze Phoenix has another aspect as well; made up of shovels, wrenches and drill bits – the tools of the worker -  it is a contemporary Phoenix, a representation of  21st century China in all its’ variety, ambition and raw energy.   

Materials: Natural debris attached to frosted glass panel

2016

Exhibition Location: Al Riwaq, Qatar Museum, Doha, Qatar

2018

Exhibition Location: NordArt, Büdelsdorf, Germany

2019

Exhibition Location: Center del Carme, Valencia, Spain

Book From the Ground, a book composed entirely of symbols and icons, is an account of twenty-four hours in the busy but witty life of Mr. Black (A typical urban white-collar worker). Xu Bing now developes this book into a Pop-up book, making this universally readable book more playful and amusing. 

Book from the Ground Pop-up Book - Day (2015)

Book from the Ground Pop-up Book - Night (2016)

Dimension :24.5 x 35.3cm

Material:320g, 250g and 160g Ganggu white paperboard with non-acid latex